CVE-2007-1870

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-04-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

lighttpd before 1.4.14 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request to a file whose mtime is 0, which results in a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

lighttpd: 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5 (+24)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/24886
http://secunia.com/advisories/24947
http://secunia.com/advisories/24995
http://secunia.com/advisories/25166
http://secunia.com/advisories/25613
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-07.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1303
http://www.lighttpd.net/assets/2007/4/13/lighttpd_sa2007_02.txt
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466464/30/6900/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23515
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1399

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