CVE-2008-4298 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4298
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Description: Memory leak in the http_request_parse function in request.c in lighttpd before 1.4.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of requests with duplicate request headers.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45471 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32069 Secunia Advisory: SA32132 Secunia Advisory: SA32834 Secunia Advisory: SA32972 Secunia Advisory: SA32480 MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/26/5 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-04.xml DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1645 CONFIRM http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2305 http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1774 http://www.lighttpd.net/security/lighttpd_sa_2008_07.txt http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238180 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/497932/100/0/threaded BID 31434

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