Security Advisory

CVE-2011-4362

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-12-24 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 00:09:18
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

Integer signedness error in the base64_decode function in the HTTP authentication functionality (http_auth.c) in lighttpd 1.4 before 1.4.30 and 1.5 before SVN revision 2806 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via crafted base64 input that triggers an out-of-bounds read with a negative index.