Gentoo: GLSA-202303-01 Low: Nginx mod_security Denial of Service

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200401-03
~                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

~  Severity: Low
~     Title: Apache mod_python Denial of Service vulnerability
~      Date: January 27, 2004
~      Bugs: #39154
~        ID: 200401-03


Synopsis
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Apache's mod_python module could crash the httpd process if a specific,
malformed query string was sent.

Background
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Mod_python is an Apache module that embeds the Python interpreter within
the server allowing Python-based web-applications to be created.

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The Apache Foundation has reported that mod_python may be prone to
Denial of Service attacks when handling a malformed query. Mod_python
2.7.9 was released to fix the vulnerability, however, because the
vulnerability has not been fully fixed, version 2.7.10 has been released.

Users of mod_python 3.0.4 are not affected by this vulnerability.

Impact
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Alth...
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