CVE-2007-3948

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-07-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

connections.c in lighttpd before 1.4.16 might accept more connections than the configured maximum, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (failed assertion) via a large number of connection attempts.

Affected products

lighttpd: through 1.4.15

References

http://osvdb.org/38312
http://secunia.com/advisories/26130
http://secunia.com/advisories/26158
http://secunia.com/advisories/26505
http://secunia.com/advisories/31104
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-11.xml
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/1873
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1216
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1609
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474131/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24967

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