CVE-2008-0983 (GCVE-0-2008-0983)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-02-26 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
lighttpd 1.4.18, and possibly other versions before 1.5.0, does not properly calculate the size of a file descriptor array, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large number of connections, which triggers an out-of-bounds access.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
17 references
Date Public
2008-02-21 00:00
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],
"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27943"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0659/references"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2284"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00162.html"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00180.html"
}
],
"sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org",
"vulnStatus": "Modified",
"weaknesses": [
{
"description": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "CWE-399"
}
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"type": "Primary"
}
]
}
},
"redhat_vex": {
"current_release_date": "2025-11-21T13:17:11+00:00",
"cve": "CVE-2008-0983",
"id": "CVE-2008-0983",
"initial_release_date": "2008-01-01T00:00:00+00:00",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
"source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
"status": "final",
"title": "lighttpd crashes when it\u0027s low on file descriptors",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2008/cve-2008-0983.json",
"version": "3"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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