CVE-2007-3946 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-3946 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.4
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 292050 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2007:015, published Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 15:45:59 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:00 2025