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Lighttpd Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2008-0983 - Vulnerability Database
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Lighttpd Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2008-0983

Medium
Reference: CVE-2008-0983
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0983
Title: Lighttpd Resource Management Errors Vulnerability
Overview:

lighttpd 1.4.18 and possibly other versions before 1.5.0 does not properly calculate the size of a file descriptor array which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large number of connections which triggers an out-of-bounds access.