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CVE-2008-4298

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
27/09/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.4.19 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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