CVE-2022-41556 (GCVE-0-2022-41556)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-06 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 12:42
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Summary
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.
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