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lighthttpd DoS
Published: 29.02.2008
Source: BUGTRAQ
SecurityVulns ID: 8732
Type: remote
Level: 5/10
Description: DoS on large number of connections.

Affected: LIGHTHTTPD : lighttpd 1.4
CVE: CVE-2008-0983 (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.)

Original document RPATH, rPSA-2008-0084-1 lighttpd (29.02.2008)

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