PT-2007-5883 · Lighttpd · Lighttpd

Lubomir Kundrak · Published 2007-09-12 · Updated 2018-10-15 · CVE-2007-4727

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: lighttpd versions prior to 1.4.18

Description: The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the fcgi env add function, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary CGI variables and execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with a long content length. This can be achieved by overwriting the SCRIPT FILENAME variable.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 1.4.18, update to version 1.4.18 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-4727

DSA-1362-1

Affected Products

Lighttpd

References · 23

• http://secunia.com/advisories/26732 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4727 · Security Note
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200709-16.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4727 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4727 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-4727 · Vendor Advisory
• http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2007-213.shtml · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27229 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/479763/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26794 · Note
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1715 · Note
• http://lighttpd.net/assets/2007/9/9/lighttpd_sa_2007_12.txt · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36526 · Note
• http://secweb.se/en/advisories/lighttpd-fastcgi-remote-vulnerability · Note