CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2022-41556
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-401
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- lighttpd:lighttpd
References
- https://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/commit/b18de6f9264f914f7bf493abd3b6059343548e50
- https://github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/compare/lighttpd-1.4.66...lighttpd-1.4.67
- https://github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/pull/115
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OVOSBSCMLGCHH2Z74H64ZWVDFJFQTBC2/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-12