CVE-2008-0983 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29066 http://secunia.com/advisories/29166 http://secunia.com/advisories/29209 http://secunia.com/advisories/29268 http://secunia.com/advisories/29622 http://secunia.com/advisories/31104 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-10.xml http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1562 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0084 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1609 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488926/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27943 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0659/references https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2284 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00162.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00180.html