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TITLE:
lighttpd Duplicate Request Headers Memory Leak Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32069

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
lighttpd 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/4661/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in lighttpd, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a memory leak within the
"http_request_parse()" function when processing duplicate request
headers and can be exploited to exhaust all available memory.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.4.19. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the development repository.
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2305

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by qhy in a lighttpd ticket.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1774

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