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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0453
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CVE-2005-0453

Description:
The buffer_urldecode function in Lighttpd 1.3.7 and earlier does not properly handle control characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain the source code for CGI and FastCGI scripts via a URL with a %00 (null) character after the file extension.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA14297

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-21.xml

CONFIRM
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171


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