CVE-2003-0973 (GCVE-0-2003-0973)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-12-02 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:12
VLAI
Summary
Unknown vulnerability in mod_python 3.0.x before 3.0.4, and 2.7.x before 2.7.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (httpd crash) via a certain query string.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2003-11-28 00:00
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