Resource Management Errors Affecting lighttpd package, versions [,1.4.26)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
9.13% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIGHTTPD-2383275
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Feb 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Feb 2010

CVE-2010-0295  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lighttpd to version 1.4.26 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors lighttpd before 1.4.26, and 1.5.x, allocates a buffer for each read operation that occurs for a request, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by breaking a request into small pieces that are sent at a slow rate.

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