Service crash via stale response buffer pointer
Published Feb 5, 2024 · Updated Jun 12, 2025
Use-after-free in Lotos WebServer 0.1.1 allows remote attackers to crash the service during HTTP response construction. response_append_status_line retains its original buffer pointer after buffer_cat_cstr can relocate the allocation through buffer_cat and realloc, so a later append uses stale memory. No authentication or user interaction is required; the reported consequence is a service crash, with no confidentiality or integrity impact.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in Lotos WebServer 0.1.1 allows remote attackers to crash the service during HTTP response construction. response_append_status_line retains its original buffer pointer after buffer_cat_cstr can relocate the allocation through buffer_cat and realloc, so a later append uses stale memory. No authentication or user interaction is required; the reported consequence is a service crash, with no confidentiality or integrity impact.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-24263
- Published
- Feb 5, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 12, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-416, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 5, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 12, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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