CVE-2005-0453 Information

Description

The buffer_urldecode function in Lighttpd 1.3.7 and earlier does not properly handle control characters which allows remote attackers to obtain the source code for CGI and FastCGI scripts via a URL with a 00 (null) character after the file extension.

Reference

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171 http://secunia.com/advisories/14297 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-21.xml The buffer_urldecode function in Lighttpd 1.3.7 and earlier does not properly handle control characters which allows remote attackers to obtain the source code for CGI and FastCGI scripts via a URL with a 00 (null) character after the file extension.