rPSA-2007-0072-1 lighttpd
rPath Security Advisory: 2007-0072-1
Published: 2007-04-18
Products: rPath Linux 1
Rating: Major
Exposure Level Classification:
Remote Deterministic Denial of Service
Updated Versions:
lighttpd=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//1/1.4.15-0.1-1
References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1869
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1870
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1218
Description:
Previous versions of the lighttpd package are vulnerable to two denial
of service attacks. One is a remote denial of service that can cause
lighttpd to consume all available CPU time and stop serving requests,
and the other is a denial of service attack which generally requires
a local user to create a file with an mtime of 0; the lighttpd daemon
will crash when attempting to serve that file. This crash does not
enable any arbitrary or directed code execution.