National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2003-0253
Orirignal release date: 2003-08-18
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    The prefork MPM in Apache 2 before 2.0.47 does not properly handle certain errors from accept, which could lead to a denial of service.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 3.3 (Low)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: exception
    Impact Type: avail

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Apache (Apache Software Foundation)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0253