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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References
        | Link | Providers | 
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| https://github.com/litespeedtech/openlitespeed/issues/117 |     | 
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T11:44:20.563Z
Reserved: 2018-12-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-19792
 Vulnrichment
                        Vulnrichment
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Modified
Published: 2018-12-03T06:29:00.460
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:58:34.133
Link: CVE-2018-19792
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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