A vulnerability has been identified in Lighttpd, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error in the "connection_state_machine()" [src/connections.c] function when terminating SSL connections, which could be exploited by a remote attacker to cause all active SSL connections to be lost by triggering an SSL error (e.g. disconnecting before a download has finished).
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Vulnerability reported by sean.
ChangeLog
2008-04-02 : Initial release
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