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lighttpd "%00" Application Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA14297  
Release Date: 2005-02-16
Last Update: 2005-02-21

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:lighttpd 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-0453 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in lighttpd, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose some potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "buffer_urldecode()" function, as encoded control sequences are not correctly handled. This can be exploited to disclose the source code of CGI and FastCGI applications by appending "%00" to the filename in an URL.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.3.7 and prior.

Solution:
Update to 1.3.10.
http://lighttpd.net/download/

Apply patch for 1.3.7.
http://wiki.lighttpd.net/7.html#A12

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits daniel.

Changelog:
2005-02-21: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171



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2. lighttpd mod_cgi and mod_userdir Information Disclosure Security Issues
3. lighttpd File Descriptor Array Denial of Service Vulnerability
4. lighttpd mod_fastcgi PHP Header Overflow
5. lighttpd Multiple Vulnerabilities
6. lighttpd "mtime" and "\r\n\r\n\" Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
7. Lighttpd Script Source Disclosure Vulnerability
8. Lighttpd Case-Insensitive Filename Source Code Disclosure


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