CVE-2007-3946 (GCVE-0-2007-3946)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-07-24 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:37
VLAI
Summary
mod_auth (http_auth.c) in lighttpd before 1.4.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via unspecified vectors involving (1) a memory leak, (2) use of md5-sess without a cnonce, (3) base64 encoded strings, and (4) trailing whitespace in the Auth-Digest header.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2007-07-19 00:00
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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.

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