Resource Management Errors Affecting lighttpd package, versions [,1.4.20)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
11.66% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIGHTTPD-2383265
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Sept 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Sep 2008

CVE-2008-4298  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lighttpd to version 1.4.20 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. Memory leak in the http_request_parse function in request.c in lighttpd before 1.4.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of requests with duplicate request headers.

CVSS Scores

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