Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1645-1 lighttpd -- various
- Date Reported:
- 06 Oct 2008
- Affected Packages:
- lighttpd
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-4298, CVE-2008-4359, CVE-2008-4360.
- More information:
-
Several local/remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in lighttpd, a fast webserver with minimal memory footprint.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2008-4298
A memory leak in the http_request_parse function could be used by remote attackers to cause lighttpd to consume memory, and cause a denial of service attack.
- CVE-2008-4359
Inconsistant handling of URL patterns could lead to the disclosure of resources a server administrator did not anticipate when using rewritten URLs.
- CVE-2008-4360
Upon filesystems which don't handle case-insensitive paths differently it might be possible that unanticipated resources could be made available by mod_userdir.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.13-4etch11.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed shortly.
We recommend that you upgrade your lighttpd package.
- CVE-2008-4298
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.13-4etch11.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.13-4etch11.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.13-4etch11.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-doc_1.4.13-4etch11_all.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.13-4etch11_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-webdav_1.4.13-4etch11_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-cml_1.4.13-4etch11_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost_1.4.13-4etch11_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl_1.4.13-4etch11_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-magnet_1.4.13-4etch11_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-webdav_1.4.13-4etch11_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-webdav_1.4.13-4etch11_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl_1.4.13-4etch11_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-magnet_1.4.13-4etch11_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost_1.4.13-4etch11_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.13-4etch11_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-cml_1.4.13-4etch11_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl_1.4.13-4etch11_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.13-4etch11_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-magnet_1.4.13-4etch11_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-cml_1.4.13-4etch11_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost_1.4.13-4etch11_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-webdav_1.4.13-4etch11_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl_1.4.13-4etch11_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-magnet_1.4.13-4etch11_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl_1.4.13-4etch11_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-magnet_1.4.13-4etch11_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-webdav_1.4.13-4etch11_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.13-4etch11_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-cml_1.4.13-4etch11_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost_1.4.13-4etch11_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-magnet_1.4.13-4etch11_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-cml_1.4.13-4etch11_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-magnet_1.4.13-4etch11_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.13-4etch11_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost_1.4.13-4etch11_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-webdav_1.4.13-4etch11_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl_1.4.13-4etch11_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-magnet_1.4.13-4etch11_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-cml_1.4.13-4etch11_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-webdav_1.4.13-4etch11_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.13-4etch11_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost_1.4.13-4etch11_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-magnet_1.4.13-4etch11_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl_1.4.13-4etch11_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-webdav_1.4.13-4etch11_mips.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-webdav_1.4.13-4etch11_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl_1.4.13-4etch11_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-cml_1.4.13-4etch11_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-magnet_1.4.13-4etch11_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.13-4etch11_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost_1.4.13-4etch11_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl_1.4.13-4etch11_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-cml_1.4.13-4etch11_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-webdav_1.4.13-4etch11_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost_1.4.13-4etch11_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.13-4etch11_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl_1.4.13-4etch11_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-magnet_1.4.13-4etch11_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-webdav_1.4.13-4etch11_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost_1.4.13-4etch11_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl_1.4.13-4etch11_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-cml_1.4.13-4etch11_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-magnet_1.4.13-4etch11_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-webdav_1.4.13-4etch11_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.13-4etch11_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lighttpd/lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl_1.4.13-4etch11_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.