ALAS-2012-107

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2011-4362  

Integer signedness error in the base64_decode function in the HTTP authentication functionality (http_auth.c) in lighttpd 1.4 before 1.4.30 and 1.5 before SVN revision 2806 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via crafted base64 input that triggers an out-of-bounds read with a negative index.

ALAS-2012-107


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-107
Advisory Release Date: 2012-07-09 14:20 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:45 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2011-4362 

Issue Overview:

Integer signedness error in the base64_decode function in the HTTP authentication functionality (http_auth.c) in lighttpd 1.4 before 1.4.30 and 1.5 before SVN revision 2806 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via crafted base64 input that triggers an out-of-bounds read with a negative index.


Affected Packages:

lighttpd


Issue Correction:
Run yum update lighttpd to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.31-1.2.amzn1.i686
    lighttpd-mod_mysql_vhost-1.4.31-1.2.amzn1.i686
    lighttpd-debuginfo-1.4.31-1.2.amzn1.i686
    lighttpd-mod_geoip-1.4.31-1.2.amzn1.i686
    lighttpd-1.4.31-1.2.amzn1.i686

src:
    lighttpd-1.4.31-1.2.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.31-1.2.amzn1.x86_64
    lighttpd-debuginfo-1.4.31-1.2.amzn1.x86_64
    lighttpd-1.4.31-1.2.amzn1.x86_64
    lighttpd-mod_geoip-1.4.31-1.2.amzn1.x86_64
    lighttpd-mod_mysql_vhost-1.4.31-1.2.amzn1.x86_64