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CVE-2003-0132 json

A memory leak in Apache 2.0 through 2.0.44 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via large chunks of li…

published 2003-04-03 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0128

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
87.1%
EPSS 87.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.7%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

A memory leak in Apache 2.0 through 2.0.44 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via large chunks of linefeed characters, which causes Apache to allocate 80 bytes for each linefeed.

Patch / fix

  • apache2 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.0.45

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0132

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2003-0132 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 8.0 Red Hat Linux 9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:139

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-9)

Exploit prediction

87.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-11 Apache 2.0.44 (Linux) - Remote Denial of Service dos, 2003-04-11
  • EDB-9 Apache 2.x - Memory Leak dos, 2003-04-09
  • marc.info http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105001663120995&w=2 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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