CVE-2008-0983

2008-02-2600:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

0.1

Percentile

95.0%

JSON

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.

Bugs

Notes

Author	Note
jdstrand	per emgent, this is fixed with 90_maxfds_crash_fix

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu6.06noarchlighttpd< 1.4.11-3ubuntu3.6UNKNOWN
ubuntu6.10noarchlighttpd< 1.4.13~r1370-1ubuntu1.4UNKNOWN
ubuntu7.04noarchlighttpd< 1.4.13-9ubuntu4.3UNKNOWN
ubuntu7.10noarchlighttpd< 1.4.18-1ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	6.06	noarch	lighttpd	< 1.4.11-3ubuntu3.6	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	6.10	noarch	lighttpd	< 1.4.13~r1370-1ubuntu1.4	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	7.04	noarch	lighttpd	< 1.4.13-9ubuntu4.3	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	7.10	noarch	lighttpd	< 1.4.18-1ubuntu1.1	UNKNOWN