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CVE-2008-0983

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2008-02-26 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Lighttpd Lighttpd

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References