Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-0983 First vendor Publication 2008-02-26
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2018-10-15

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0983

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 12

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for lighttpd FEDORA-2008-3343
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3343_lighttpd_fc7.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for lighttpd FEDORA-2008-3376
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3376_lighttpd_fc8.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for lighttpd FEDORA-2008-2262
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_2262_lighttpd_fc7.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for lighttpd FEDORA-2008-2278
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_2278_lighttpd_fc8.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200803-10 (lighttpd)
File : nvt/glsa_200803_10.nasl
2008-08-15 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1609-1 (lighttpd)
File : nvt/deb_1609_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
42363 lighttpd File Descriptor Array Connection Saturation Remote DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-02-06 Name : The remote web server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities
File : lighttpd_1_4_19.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1609.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-04 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_lighttpd-5107.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-2262.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-2278.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-07 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200803-10.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27943
BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488926/100/0/threaded
CONFIRM http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1562
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0084
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2284
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1609
FEDORA https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00162.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00180.html
GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-10.xml
SECUNIA 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
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0659/references

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