CVE-2008-0983

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

lighttpd: 1.4.7, 1.4.8, 1.4.9, 1.4.10, 1.4.11, 1.4.12 (+6)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29066
http://secunia.com/advisories/29166
http://secunia.com/advisories/29209
http://secunia.com/advisories/29268
http://secunia.com/advisories/29622
http://secunia.com/advisories/31104
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-10.xml
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1562
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0084
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1609
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488926/100/0/threaded

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