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Gentoo: 202310-12 Advisory: Apache 2 Service Disruption Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey September 16, 2004
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Several security flaws in Apache 2 and mod_dav may permit a malicious entity to initiate a Denial of Service attack or elevate privileges.
Several vulnerabilities have been found in Apache 2 and mod_dav for Apache 1.3 which could allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service or a local user to get escalated pri...

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200409-21
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Apache 2, mod_dav: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: September 16, 2004
      Bugs: #62626, #63948, #64145
        ID: 200409-21


Synopsis
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Several vulnerabilities have been found in Apache 2 and mod_dav for
Apache 1.3 which could allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of
Service or a local user to get escalated privileges.

Background
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The Apache HTTP server is one of most popular web servers on the
internet. mod_ssl provides SSL v2/v3 and TLS v1 support for it and
mod_dav is the Apache module for Distributed Authoring and Versioning
(DAV).

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