CVE-2008-4298 (GCVE-0-2008-4298)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-09-27 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:08
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/32069 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238180 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/32972 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/26/5 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2305 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45471 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/32834 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31434 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/32132 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.lighttpd.net/security/lighttpd_sa_2008_07.txt x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497932/100/0/threaded mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2741 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1645 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/32480 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1774 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-04.xml vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
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