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LIN1022-1733 : Security Advisory - lighttpd - CVE-2022-37797

Created: Sep 12, 2022    Updated: Nov 22, 2022
Resolved Date: Sep 26, 2022
Found In Version: 10.22.33.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 22
Component/s: Userspace

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.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) CVE-2022-37797 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37797)
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