CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4298
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• lighttpd lighttpd (<= 1.4.19)
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.1.1
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.1.2
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.1.3
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.1.4
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.1.5
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.1.6
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.1.7
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.1.8
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.1.9
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.2.1
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.2.2
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.2.3
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.2.4
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.2.5
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.2.6
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.2.7
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.2.8
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.0
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.1
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.2
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.3
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.4
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.5
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.6
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.7
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.8
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.9
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.10
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.11
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.12
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.13
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.14
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.15
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.3.16
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.0
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.1
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.2
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.3
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.4
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.5
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.6
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.7
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.8
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.9
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.10
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.11
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.12
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.13
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.14
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.15
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.16
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.17
• lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.18
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238180 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32069 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32132 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32480 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32834 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32972 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-04.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2305 trac.lighttpd.net
- http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1774 Patch
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309 wiki.rpath.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1645 www.debian.org
- http://www.lighttpd.net/security/lighttpd_sa_2008_07.txt www.lighttpd.net
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/26/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497932/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31434 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2741 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45471 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238180 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32069 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32132 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32480 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32834 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32972 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-04.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2305 trac.lighttpd.net
- http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1774 Patch
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309 wiki.rpath.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1645 www.debian.org
- http://www.lighttpd.net/security/lighttpd_sa_2008_07.txt www.lighttpd.net
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/26/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497932/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31434 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2741 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45471 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com