GSD-2008-0983

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:22
Details
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.
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CVE-2008-0983
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