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CVE-2008-4298

Date: September 26, 2008

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (22)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32132
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-4298
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/26/5
http://secunia.com/advisories/32480
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497932/100/0/threaded
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1774
http://secunia.com/advisories/32834
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-04.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/32972
http://secunia.com/advisories/32069
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1645
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238180
http://www.lighttpd.net/security/lighttpd_sa_2008_07.txt
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4298
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31434
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2741
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45471
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2305
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-4298

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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