A memory leak was found in the Apache 2 ‘worker’ module in the handling of aborted TCP connections. By repeatedly triggering this situation, a remote attacker could drain all available memory, which eventually led to a Denial of Service.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
7 December 2005
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
A memory leak was found in the Apache 2 ‘worker’ module in the handling of aborted TCP connections. By repeatedly triggering this situation, a remote attacker could drain all available memory, which eventually led to a Denial of Service.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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