Security Advisory

CVE-2022-37797

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-09-12 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-03 10:37:41
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

In lighttpd 1.4.65, mod_wstunnel does not initialize a handler function pointer if an invalid HTTP request (websocket handshake) is received. It leads to null pointer dereference which crashes the server. It could be used by an external attacker to cause denial of service condition.