SB2012020105 - Resource management error in apache2 (Alpine package)
Published: February 1, 2012
Security Bulletin ID
SB2012020105
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0031)
The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
scoreboard.c in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.21 and earlier might allow local users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash during shutdown) or possibly have unspecified other impact by modifying a certain type field within a scoreboard shared memory segment, leading to an invalid call to the free function.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.