lighttpd is vulnerable to denial of service. The vulnerability exists in gw_backend.c
where there is a resource leak which will lead to a connection slot exhaustion after a large amount of anomalous TCP behavior causing an application crash.
git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/commit/b18de6f9264f914f7bf493abd3b6059343548e50
github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/compare/lighttpd-1.4.66...lighttpd-1.4.67
github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/pull/115
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OVOSBSCMLGCHH2Z74H64ZWVDFJFQTBC2/
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-41556
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-12