CVE-2008-4298
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.035 · 89 %ileEUUSgrimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
3.53% (89th) EPSS
CVSS 5 · medium
Who says so?
2 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Memory leak in the http_request_parse function in request.c in lighttpd before 1.4.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of requests with duplicate request headers.
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5.0
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affected products (55)
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also known as (2)
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sources
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published 2008-09-27modified 2026-06-16
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references (38)
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- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238180enisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32069enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32132enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32480enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32834enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32972enisa_euvd
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-04.xmlenisa_euvd
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