Debian: New hiki packages fix denial of service
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 1119-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze July 22nd, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : hiki Vulnerability : design flaw Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-3379 BugTraq ID : 18785 Debian Bug : 378059 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. 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. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given at the end of this advisory: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 561 fa72e16d4c5eb8108ccd603b3396bd76 Size/MD5 checksum: 1573 46c81d7c9e5f52115df2fd91b6cc0bf4 Size/MD5 checksum: 143468 11c97fe604d70fc42f6c198ec64018e9 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 108780 b1e689405cc70854ad77f5be95a86606 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org