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TITLE:
lighttpd Slow Request Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38403

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38403/

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 the server allocating several
kilobytes of heap memory for each received network packet. This can
be exploited to exhaust all available memory and terminate the server
via an HTTP session sending e.g. a network packet of 1 byte per
second.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch:
http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/security/lighttpd-1.4.x_fix_slow_request_dos.patch

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Li Ming in a lighttpd bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/security/lighttpd_sa_2010_01.txt
http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2147

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