CVE-2005-0453

The buffer_urldecode function in Lighttpd 1.3.7 and earlier does not properly handle control characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain the source code for CGI and FastCGI scripts via a URL with a %00 (null) character after the file extension.

• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14297Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-21.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14297Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-21.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory

Published

Feb 16, 2005

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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