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THTTPD Basic Auth Buffer Overflow

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THTTPD Basic Auth Buffer Overflow

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/20/2001
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/29/2007
Modified
12/04/2013

Description

THTTPD versions 1.95 through 2.21 are vulnerable to an off-by-one buffer overflow which could allow an attacker to facilitate a denial of service on the target machine.

Solution(s)

  • thttpd-upgrade-latest

References

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