CVE-2008-0983

EPSS 4.6%

lighttpd - multiple DOS issues

Published: 2/26/2008Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

lighttpd 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.

Affected packages (2)

References (1)