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Gentoo: GLSA 200907-04 High: Apache Privilege Escalation and DoS

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Multiple vulnerabilities in the Apache HTTP daemon allow for local privilege escalation, information disclosure or Denial of Service attacks

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200907-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Apache: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: July 12, 2009 Bugs: #268154, #271470, #276426, #276792 ID: 200907-04

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities in the Apache HTTP daemon allow for local privilege escalation, information disclosure or Denial of Service attacks.
Background ========= The Apache HTTP server is one of the most popular web servers on the Internet.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-servers/apache < 2.2.11-r2 >= 2.2.11-r2
========== Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Apache HTTP server:
* Jonathan Peatfield reported t...

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