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Gentoo: 200502-21 Low Severity: Lighttpd Script Source Exposure

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2005
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Gentoo GLSA 202001-15 announces a minor risk concerning nginx configuration flaws that could lead to unauthorized access and exploitation opportunities.
An attacker can trick lighttpd into revealing the source of scripts that should be executed as CGI or FastCGI applications.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-21 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: lighttpd: Script source disclosure Date: February 15, 2005 Bugs: #81776 ID: 200502-21

Synopsis ======= An attacker can trick lighttpd into revealing the source of scripts that should be executed as CGI or FastCGI applications.
Background ========= lighttpd is a small-footprint, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server which is optimized for high-performance environments.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-servers/lighttpd < 1.3.10-r1 >= 1.3.10-r1
========== lighttpd uses file extensions to determine which elements are programs that should be ex...

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