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Apache HTTPD: scoreboard parent DoS (CVE-2012-0031)

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Apache HTTPD: scoreboard parent DoS (CVE-2012-0031)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/18/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/12/2012
Modified
01/13/2022

Description

A flaw was found in the handling of the scoreboard. An unprivileged child process could cause the parent process to crash at shutdown rather than terminate cleanly.

Solution(s)

  • apache-httpd-upgrade-2_0_65
  • apache-httpd-upgrade-2_2_22

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