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DEBIAN-CVE-2022-41556

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-41556 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:14lighttpd0, 0, 0
Debian:12lighttpd0, 0, 0
Debian:13lighttpd0, 0, 0
Debian:11lighttpd1.4.59-1, 0, 1.4.59-1

Timeline

  • Oct 6, 2022 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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