CVE-2002-0839
The shared memory scoreboard in the HTTP daemon for Apache 1.3.x before 1.3.27 allows any user running as the Apache UID to send a SIGUSR1 signal to any process as root, resulting in a denial of service (process kill) or possibly other behaviors that would not normally be allowed, by modifying the parent[].pid and parent[].last_rtime segments in the scoreboard.
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 61% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apache:http_server
- debian:debian_linux
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20021105-01-I
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0195.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0254.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0012.html
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000530