Debian 5.0: DSA-1740-1 Critical: Yaws Remote Denial Of Service

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.

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 below:

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 4.0 alias etch

Debian (oldstable)
- ------------------

...