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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1119-1 (hiki)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to hiki announced via advisory DSA 1119-1. Akira Tanaka discovered a vulnerability in Hiki Wiki, a Wiki engine written in Ruby that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via high CPU consumption using by performing a diff between large and specially crafted Wiki pages.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.5-2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.6-1. We recommend that you upgrade your hiki package. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201119-1

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