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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:47:17 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: Robert Buchholz <rbu@...too.org>
cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: lighttpd mod_cgi script source disclosure

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Robert Buchholz wrote:

> mod_cgi in lighttpd 1.4.18 (and earlier?) will send the source of a cgi
> script if it fails to fork the cgi handler, instead of an HTTP 500.
> mod_cgi is disabled by default.
>
> See for a patch:
>   http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2107
>   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211956

Use CVE-2008-1111 - this will be public (in CVE) sometime on Monday.

- Steve

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