Gentoo: 200708-11 Moderate: Lighttpd Denial Of Service Threats

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200708-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Lighttpd: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: August 16, 2007 Bugs: #185442 ID: 200708-11

Synopsis ======= Several vulnerabilities were reported in Lighttpd, most of them allowing a Denial of Service and potentially the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Lighttpd is a lightweight HTTP web server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-servers/lighttpd < 1.4.16 >= 1.4.16
========== Stefan Esser discovered errors with evidence of memory corruption in the code parsing the headers. Several independent researchers also reported errors in...