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GLSA: apache
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Ahlberg)
Tue Oct 15 12:44:50 2002
From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:26:10 +0200
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Message-Id: <20021015082145.E4B0C3373A@mail1.tamperd.net>
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-002
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PACKAGE : apache
SUMMARY : shared memory scoreboard vulnerabilities
EXPLOIT : local
DATE : 2002-10-15 08:25 UTC
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Apache HTTP Server contains a vulnerability in its shared memory
scoreboard. Attackers who can execute commands under the Apache
UID can either send a (SIGUSR1) signal to any process as root, in
most cases killing the process, or launch a local denial of service (DoS)
attack.
Read the full advisory at
http://www.idefense.com/advisory/10.03.02.txt
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-www/apache-1.3.26-r4 and earlier update their systems
as follows:
emerge rsync
emerge apache
emerge clean
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