CVE-2010-0295 Information

Description

lighttpd before 1.4.26 and 1.5.x allocates a buffer for each read operation that occurs for a request which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by breaking a request into small pieces that are sent at a slow rate.

Reference

http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/cve_2010_0295_vulnerability_in http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/security/lighttpd_sa_2010_01.txt http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/security/lighttpd-1.4.x_fix_slow_request_dos.patch http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/security/lighttpd-1.5_fix_slow_request_dos.patch http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041264.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041296.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041307.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00003.html http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2147 http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/repository/revisions/2710 http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/repository/revisions/2711 http://secunia.com/advisories/38403 http://secunia.com/advisories/39765 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201006-17.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1987 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/01/8 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38036 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0172 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56038