vulnerability
Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-41556: Lighttpd: Denial of Service
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Oct 6, 2022 | Oct 31, 2022 | Mar 31, 2026 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 6, 2022
Added
Oct 31, 2022
Modified
Mar 31, 2026
Description
A resource leak in gw_backend.c in lighttpd 1.4.56 through 1.4.66 could lead to a denial of service (connection-slot exhaustion) after a large amount of anomalous TCP behavior by clients. It is related to RDHUP mishandling in certain HTTP/1.1 chunked situations. Use of mod_fastcgi is, for example, affected. This is fixed in 1.4.67.
Solution
gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-servers-lighttpd
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