PT-2008-2586 · Lighttpd · Lighttpd

Fdeletangover · Published 2008-02-26 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2008-0983

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions lighttpd versions prior to 1.5.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, by establishing a large number of connections. This triggers an out-of-bounds access due to improper calculation of the size of a file descriptor array.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.5.0, update to version 1.5.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-0983

DSA-1609-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10585-1

Affected Products

Lighttpd

References · 31

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10585-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29066 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0983 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/27943 · Patch
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-10.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1609 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0983 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00180.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0983 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00162.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-0983 · Vendor Advisory
• http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1562 · Patch
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-1870 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29268 · Note