CVE

Id
5229  
CVE No.
CVE-2002-0839  
Status
Candidate  
Description
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.  
Phase
Modified (20110830)  
Votes
ACCEPT(3) Armstrong, Cole, Green | MODIFY(1) Cox | NOOP(1) Christey  
Comments
Christey> CONFIRM:http://www.info.apple.com/usen/security/security_updates.html | Cox> Addref: RHSA-2002:251 | Addref: RHSA-2002:248 | Addref: RHSA-2002:244 | Addref: RHSA-2002:243 | Addref: RHSA-2002:222 | Change Apache Week ref to: http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/02-10-04#security | Christey> SGI:20021105-02-I | URL:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20021105-02-I