Resource Management Errors Affecting lighttpd package, versions [,1.5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
10.21% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIGHTTPD-2383252
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Feb 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Feb 2008

CVE-2008-0983  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lighttpd to version 1.5.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors 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.

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