Lighttpd Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2007-4727 - Vulnerability Database

Lighttpd Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2007-4727

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Reference: CVE-2007-4727
Title: Lighttpd Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability
Overview:

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 quotheader overflow.quot