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lighttpd: denial of service

Package(s):lighttpd CVE #(s):CVE-2010-0295
Created:February 2, 2010 Updated:June 3, 2010
Description: From the Debian advisory: Li Ming discovered that lighttpd, a small and fast webserver with minimal memory footprint, is vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to bad memory handling. Slowly sending very small chunks of request data causes lighttpd to allocate new buffers for each read instead of appending to old ones. An attacker can abuse this behaviour to cause denial of service conditions due to memory exhaustion.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2010-7643 2010-04-30
Fedora FEDORA-2010-7636 2010-04-30
Debian DSA-1987-1 2010-02-02
Gentoo 201006-17 2010-06-03
SuSE SUSE-SR:2010:003 2010-02-09
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