Lighttpd: Two Denials of Service — GLSA 200705-07

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Lighttpd, each allowing for a Denial of Service.

Affected packages

Background

Lighttpd is a lightweight HTTP web server.

Description

Robert Jakabosky discovered an infinite loop triggered by a connection abort when Lighttpd processes carriage return and line feed sequences. Marcus Rueckert discovered a NULL pointer dereference when a server running Lighttpd tries to access a file with a mtime of 0.

Impact

A remote attacker could upload a specially crafted file to the server or send a specially crafted request and then abort the connection, possibly resulting in a crash or a Denial of Service by CPU consumption.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-servers/lighttpd-1.4.14"

References

• CVE-2007-1869
• CVE-2007-1870

Release date
May 07, 2007

Latest revision
May 07, 2007: 01

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 174043