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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1740-1 (yaws)

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

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to yaws announced via advisory DSA 1740-1.

Insight

Insight

It was discovered that yaws, a high performance HTTP 1.1 webserver, is prone to a denial of service attack via a request with a large HTTP header. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.77-3+lenny1. For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.65-4etch1. For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.80-1. We recommend that you upgrade your yaws package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201740-1

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