CVE-2008-0983

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.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00180.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00162.html

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2284

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0659/references

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27943

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488926/100/0/threaded

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1609

http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0084

http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1562

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-10.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/31104

http://secunia.com/advisories/29622

http://secunia.com/advisories/29268

http://secunia.com/advisories/29209

http://secunia.com/advisories/29166

http://secunia.com/advisories/29066

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3