CVE-2002-1850
HIGHEPSS 97th pctlDescription
mod_cgi in Apache 2.0.39 and 2.0.40 allows local users and possibly remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang and memory consumption) by causing a CGI script to send a large amount of data to stderr, which results in a read/write deadlock between httpd and the CGI script.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd-2.0/modules/generators/mod_cgi.c?r1=1.148.2.7&r2=1.148.2.8
- http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10515
- http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22030
- http://marc.info/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=103291952019514&w=2
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2002/Sep/0253.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1007823
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10200.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5787
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8725
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