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lighttpd: denial of service

Package(s):lighttpd CVE #(s):CVE-2008-0983
Created:February 29, 2008 Updated:July 15, 2008
Description: From the CVE entry: 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.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1609-1 2008-07-15
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:008 2008-04-04
rPath rPSA-2008-0084-1 2008-02-28
Fedora FEDORA-2008-2262 2008-03-06
Fedora FEDORA-2008-2278 2008-03-06
Gentoo 200803-10 2008-03-05
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