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Debian 2.2 DSA-133-1 Critical Remote DoS: apache-perl Exploit

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Calendar Grey June 20, 2002
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Critical notification concerning remote Denial of Service vulnerability in Apache-Perl. Prompt upgrade is crucial to rectify security issues and protect your infrastructure.
A remote denial of service vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.3.9-14.1-1.21.20000309-1 of the Debianapache-perl package and we recommand that you upgrade your apache-perlpac...

Summary

Mark Litchfield found a denial of service attack in the Apache
web-server. While investigating the problem the Apache Software
Foundation discovered that the code for handling invalid requests which
use chunked encoding also might allow arbitrary code execution.

This has been fixed in version 1.3.9-14.1-1.21.20000309-1 of the Debian
apache-perl package and we recommand that you upgrade your apache-perl
package immediately.

An update for the soon to be released Debian GNU/Linux 3.0/woody
distribution will be available soon.

Debian 2.2 (stable)
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Stable was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

Source archives:


Size/MD5 checksum: 2400948 c605ca35d8f2966bb9492eed91044bc7

Size/MD5 checksum: 651 443da7020c1c7418ab18dfc1d7e038d0

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)


Size/MD5 checksum: 1126006 ba96b07901db27c2cb93955a948b24c4

arm architecture (Arm)


Size/MD5 checksum: 999428 204ca243c6eee9be766ff9321df02738

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

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Package: apache-perl

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