CVE-2008-0983

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-0983
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-02-26 18:44:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptionlighttpd 1.4.18, and possibly other versions before 1.5.0, does not properly calculate the size of a file descriptor array, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large number of connections, which triggers an out-of-bounds access.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Lighttpd Lighttpd 1.4.10 All All All
Application Lighttpd Lighttpd 1.4.11 All All All
Application Lighttpd Lighttpd 1.4.12 All All All
Application Lighttpd Lighttpd 1.4.13 All All All
Application Lighttpd Lighttpd 1.4.14 All All All
Application Lighttpd Lighttpd 1.4.15 All All All
Application Lighttpd Lighttpd 1.4.16 All All All
Application Lighttpd Lighttpd 1.4.17 All All All
Application Lighttpd Lighttpd 1.4.18 All All All
Application Lighttpd Lighttpd 1.4.7 All All All
Application Lighttpd Lighttpd 1.4.8 All All All
Application Lighttpd Lighttpd 1.4.9 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Gentoo update for lighttpd - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Lighttpd File Descriptor Array Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
Debian update for lighttpd - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
lighttpd: Multiple vulnerabilities — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: lighttpd-1.4.18-3.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Webmail | OVH- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
rPath update for lighttpd - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2008:08 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1609-1 lighttpd af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
SUSE Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Fedora update for lighttpd - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: lighttpd-1.4.18-6.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Lighttpd - Bug #1562: sigsegv @ fdevent_get_handler - when congestion occurs, and file descriptor arrays is full. - lighty labs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 trac.lighttpd.net Patch
lighttpd File Descriptor Array Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2284 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
Advisories:rPSA-2008-0084 - rPath Wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
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