CVE-2009-2699

Published: Oct 13, 2009Updated: Apr 23, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-667

7.5HIGH

NVD MITRE

Description

The Solaris pollset feature in the Event Port backend in poll/unix/port.c in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library before 1.3.9, as used in the Apache HTTP Server before 2.2.14 and other products, does not properly handle errors, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via unspecified HTTP requests, related to the prefork and event MPMs.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:NConfidentiality

None

I:NIntegrity

None

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-667

Affected Products

apache

oss-project·USaka apache http server, apache httpd

http serverOn-premWeb App

Networking Infrastructure / load-balancer-proxy

portable runtimeLibrary

OSS Libraries / generic-library

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Exploitability

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MITRE ATT&CK

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References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133355494609819&w=2

marc.info

http://securitytracker.com/id?1022988

securitytracker.com

http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.2.14

apache.org

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