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Gentoo: GLSA-200407-03 Moderate: Apache Denial Of Service Attack

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Intruders could leverage Apache vulnerability resulting in DoS. Users advised to update to minimize threats.
A bug in Apache may allow a remote attacker to perform a Denial of Service attack

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200407-03
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Apache 2: Remote denial of service attack
      Date: July 04, 2004
      Bugs: #55441
        ID: 200407-03


Synopsis
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A bug in Apache may allow a remote attacker to perform a Denial of
Service attack. With certain configurations this could lead to a heap
based buffer overflow.

Background
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The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an
open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems. The goal of this
project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that
provides services in tune with the current HTTP standards.

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