CVE-2008-1531 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1531
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Description: The connection_state_machine function (connections.c) in lighttpd 1.4.19 and earlier, and 1.5.x before 1.5.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (active SSL connection loss) by triggering an SSL error, such as disconnecting before a download has finished, which causes all active SSL connections to be lost.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41545 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29649 Secunia Advisory: SA29636 Secunia Advisory: SA29505 Secunia Advisory: SA29544 Secunia Advisory: SA30023 OSVDB 43788 MISC http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/285#comment:21 http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/285#comment:18 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-08.xml FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1540 CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0132 http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2140 http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2136 http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2139 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/490323/100/0/threaded BID 28489

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