Debian 5.0: DSA-2117-1 Moderate: apr-util DoS Risk Alert

Jeff Trawick discovered a flaw in the apr_brigade_split_line() function
in apr-util. A remote attacker could send crafted http requests to
cause a greatly increased memory consumption in Apache httpd, resulting
in a denial of service.

This upgrade fixes this issue. After the upgrade, any running apache2
server processes need to be restarted.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.12+dfsg-8+lenny5.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.9+dfsg-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your apr-util packages.

Upgrade instructions
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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 ...