CVE-2022-37797
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-09-12 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 10:37
Severity ?
Summary
In lighttpd 1.4.65, mod_wstunnel does not initialize a handler function pointer if an invalid HTTP request (websocket handshake) is received. It leads to null pointer dereference which crashes the server. It could be used by an external attacker to cause denial of service condition.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/3165Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-12Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5243Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/3165Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-12Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5243Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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