Memory Leak Affecting lighttpd package, versions <1.4.67-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-LIGHTTPD-5686228
  • published27 Sept 2022
  • disclosed6 Oct 2022

Introduced: 27 Sep 2022

CVE-2022-41556  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 lighttpd to version 1.4.67-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream lighttpd package and not the lighttpd package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

A resource leak in gw_backend.c in lighttpd 1.4.56 through 1.4.66 could lead to a denial of service (connection-slot exhaustion) after a large amount of anomalous TCP behavior by clients. It is related to RDHUP mishandling in certain HTTP/1.1 chunked situations. Use of mod_fastcgi is, for example, affected. This is fixed in 1.4.67.

CVSS Scores

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