Debian Security Advisory
DLA-583-1 lighttpd -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 03 Aug 2016
- Affected Packages:
- lighttpd
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 832571.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1000212. - More information:
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Dominic Scheirlinck and Scott Geary of Vend reported an insecure behaviour in the lighttpd web server. Lighttpd assigned Proxy header values from client requests to internal HTTP_PROXY environment variables. This could be used to carry out Man in the Middle Attacks (MIDM) or create connections to arbitrary hosts.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, this issue has been fixed in version 1.4.31-4+deb7u5.We recommend that you upgrade your lighttpd packages.
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