CVE-2007-4727 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-4727 at MITRE

Description

Buffer overflow in the fcgi_env_add function in mod_proxy_backend_fastcgi.c in the mod_fastcgi extension in lighttpd before 1.4.18 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary CGI variables and execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with a long content length, as demonstrated by overwriting the SCRIPT_FILENAME variable, aka a "header overflow."

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 307749 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2007:020, published Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:02:03 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:22:24 2023