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CVE-2007-4727

Published: Sep 12, 2007

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Buffer overflow in the fcgi_env_add function in mod_proxy_backend_fastcgi.c in the mod_fastcgi extension in lighttpd before 1.4.18 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary CGI variables and execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with a long content length, as demonstrated by overwriting the SCRIPT_FILENAME variable, aka a "header overflow."

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1715

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20070917 FLEA-2007-0054-1 lighttpd

mailing-list

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FEDORA-2007-2132

vendor-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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http://secweb.se/en/advisories/lighttpd-fastcgi-remote-vulnerability/

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vdb-entry

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=284511

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http://www.lighttpd.net/assets/2007/9/9/lighttpd_sa_2007_12.txt

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lighttpd-modfastcgi-code-execution(36526)

vdb-entry

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third-party-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/1986

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third-party-advisory

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vdb-entry

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third-party-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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SUSE-SR:2007:020

vendor-advisory

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