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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

Lighttpd NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability (CVE-2022-37797)

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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2022-37797

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2022-37797 CWE-476 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Tags

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