National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2002-1850
Original release date:12/31/2002
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Apache HTTP server as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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External Source: BID
Name: 8725
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: apache-stderr-dos(10200)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1007823
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22030
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 5787
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20020923 Apache 2.0.(39|40) DOS (PHP!)
External Source: MLIST
Name: [apache-httpd-dev] 20020925 CGI bucket needed
External Source: MISC
Name: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10515
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd-2.0/modules/generators/mod_cgi.c?r1=1.148.2.7&r2=1.148.2.8