CVE-2008-4298

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Memory leak in the http_request_parse function in request.c in lighttpd before 1.4.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of requests with duplicate request headers.

Affected products

lighttpd: through 1.4.19; 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6 (+47)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238180
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32069
http://secunia.com/advisories/32132
http://secunia.com/advisories/32480
http://secunia.com/advisories/32834
http://secunia.com/advisories/32972
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-04.xml
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2305
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1774
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309

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