Security Advisory

CVE-2008-0983

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-02-26 18:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 08:01:40
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.