CVE-2007-1869 Information

Description

lighttpd 1.4.12 and 1.4.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (cpu and resource consumption) by disconnecting while lighttpd is parsing CRLF sequences which triggers an infinite loop and file descriptor consumption.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/24886 http://secunia.com/advisories/24947 http://secunia.com/advisories/24995 http://secunia.com/advisories/25166 http://secunia.com/advisories/25613 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-07.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1303 http://www.lighttpd.net/assets/2007/4/13/lighttpd_sa2007_01.txt http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466464/30/6900/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23515 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1399 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33671 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1218