CVE-2003-0254

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2003-0254 · Published 18/08/2003 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2003-0254 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting http server (apache).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 9.2%, higher than 95.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
http server apache	`= 2.0= 2.0.28= 2.0.32= 2.0.35= 2.0.36= 2.0.37= 2.0.38= 2.0.39= 2.0.40= 2.0.41= 2.0.42= 2.0.43= 2.0.44= 2.0.45= 2.0.46`	No fix yet

Description

Apache 2 before 2.0.47, when running on an IPv6 host, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) when the FTP proxy server fails to create an IPv6 socket.

References

marc.info
mandriva.com/security/advisories
redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-240.html · Patch
lists.apache.org/thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org/thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0276683d8e1e07153fc8642618830ac0ade85b9ae0dc7b07f63bb8fc%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2cb985de917e7da0848c440535f65a247754db8b2154a10089e4247b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5001ecf3d6b2bdd0b732e527654248abb264f08390045d30709a92f6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7035b7c9091c4b665a3b7205364775410646f12125d48e74e395f2ce%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

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