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SUSE-SR:2007:020:vuln5: lighttpd buffer overflow

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SUSE-SR:2007:020:vuln5: lighttpd buffer overflow

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/12/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/26/2007
Modified
11/18/2015

Description

Buffer overflow in the fcgi_env_add function in mod_proxy_backend_fastcgi.c in the mod_fastcgi extension in lighttpd before 1.4.18 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary CGI variables and execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with a long content length, as demonstrated by overwriting the SCRIPT_FILENAME variable, aka a "header overflow."

Solution(s)

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