Description
lighttpd 1.4.18, and possibly other versions before 1.5.0, does not properly calculate the size of a file descriptor array, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large number of connections, which triggers an out-of-bounds access.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0659/references ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29268 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29066 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29622 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29209 ↗
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2284 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00162.html ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-10.xml ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488926/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1609 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29166 ↗
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0084 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00180.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27943 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31104 ↗
- http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1562 ↗