CVE-2008-4298: Lighttpd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in the http_request_parse function in request.c in lighttpd before 1.4.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of requests with duplicate request headers.

Affected products

• Lighttpd Lighttpd: up to and including 1.4.19; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.1.3 only; version 1.1.4 only; version 1.1.5 only; …

Published 2008-09-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.