oss-security - Re: CVE request: lighttpd DoS: forcefully closing of foreign SSL connections

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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:10:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: lighttpd DoS: forcefully closing of
 foreign SSL connections

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Christian Hoffmann wrote:

> Just for reference, apparently CVE-2008-1531 has been assigned to this
> issue, thanks to whoever did it. :)

You requested it, guess I forgot to respond to the list once I took care
of it?

- Steve

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Name: CVE-2008-1531
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1531
Reference: CONFIRM:http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/285#comment:18
Reference: CONFIRM:http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2136
Reference: CONFIRM:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214892

lighttpd 1.4.19 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial
of service (active SSL connection loss) by triggering an SSL error,
such as disconnecting before a download has finished, which causes all
active SSL connections to be lost.

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