The server in LiteSpeed OpenLiteSpeed before 1.5.0 RC6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact by creating a symlink through which the openlitespeed program can be invoked with a long command name (involving ../ characters), which is mishandled in the LshttpdMain::getServerRootFromExecutablePath function.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-12-03T06:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:44:20.563Z

Reserved: 2018-12-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-19792

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-12-03T06:29:00.460

Modified: 2019-01-31T19:58:31.927

Link: CVE-2018-19792

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