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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202210-12">
    <title>Lighttpd: Denial of Service</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in lighttpd which could result in denial of service.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">lighttpd</product>
    <announced>2022-10-31</announced>
    <revised count="1">2022-10-31</revised>
    <bug>869890</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="www-servers/lighttpd" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">1.4.67</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.67</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>Lighttpd is a lightweight high-performance web server.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>Lighttpd&#39;s mod_wstunnel does not initialize a handler function pointer if an invalid HTTP request (websocket handshake) is received.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="low">
        <p>An attacker can trigger a denial of service via making Lighttpd try to call an uninitialized function pointer.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All lighttpd users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-servers/lighttpd-1.4.67"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37797">CVE-2022-37797</uri>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-41556">CVE-2022-41556</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2022-10-31T01:09:14.713606Z">ajak</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2022-10-31T01:09:14.718507Z">ajak</metadata>
</glsa>