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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200508-15">
+ <title>Apache 2.0: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A bug in Apache may allow a remote attacker to perform a Denial of Service
+ attack.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">apache</product>
+ <announced>2005-08-25</announced>
+ <revised count="03">2007-12-30</revised>
+ <bug>102991</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="www-servers/apache" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.0.54-r9</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="lt">2.0</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.54-r9</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ The Apache HTTP Server Project is a featureful, freely-available HTTP
+ (Web) server.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Filip Sneppe discovered that Apache improperly handles byterange
+ requests to CGI scripts.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker may access vulnerable scripts in a malicious way,
+ exhausting all RAM and swap space on the server, resulting in a Denial
+ of Service of the Apache server.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All apache users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-servers/apache-2.0.54-r9"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29962">ASF Bugzilla Bug 29962</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2728">CVE-2005-2728</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-08-22T07:26:08Z">
+ DerCorny
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-08-22T07:47:26Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-08-24T00:58:46Z">
+ adir
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>