National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2003-0460
Original release date:08/27/2003
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The rotatelogs program on Apache before 1.3.28, for Windows and OS/2 systems, does not properly ignore certain control characters that are received over the pipe, which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service.
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 Apache (07/02/2008)
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Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 1.3.28:
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_13.html
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#694428
Name: VU#694428
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement.html
Type: Patch Information