CVE-2022-41556

Published Oct 6, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 3.8% KEV · Not listed
Description
A resource leak in gw_backend.c in lighttpd 1.4.56 through 1.4.66 could lead to a denial of service (connection-slot exhaustion) after a large amount of anomalous TCP behavior by clients. It is related to RDHUP mishandling in certain HTTP/1.1 chunked situations. Use of mod_fastcgi is, for example, affected. This is fixed in 1.4.67.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5243-1 lighttpd security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-44748 A resource leak in gw_backend.c in lighttpd 1.4.56 through 1.4.66 could lead to a denial of service (connection-slot exhaustion) after a large amount of anomalous TCP behavior by clients. It is related to RDHUP mishandling in certain HTTP/1.1 chunked situations. Use of mod_fastcgi is, for example, affected. This is fixed in 1.4.67.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5903-1 lighttpd vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 12:42 PM
Reserved
Sep 26, 2022, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 6, 2022, 6:17 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 5:03 AM