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title: "CVE-2007-1870\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2007-1870

Publication date 18 April 2007

Last updated 17 July 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

lighttpd before 1.4.14 allows attackers to cause a denial of service
(crash) via a request to a file whose mtime is 0, which results in a NULL
pointer dereference.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| lighttpd | 7.04 feisty | Fixed 1.4.13-9ubuntu4.2 |
| 6.10 edgy | Fixed 1.4.13~r1370-1ubuntu1.3 |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Fixed 1.4.11-3ubuntu3.5 |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1870)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1870)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2007-1870)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-1870)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1870>