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Debian 5: DSA-1303-1 Critical: Lighttpd DoS Issues and Fix

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2007
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Two problems were discovered with lighttpd, a fast webserver with minimal memory footprint, which could allow denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project ...
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Summary


Remote attackers could cause denial of service by disconnecting
partway through making a request.

CVE-2007-1870

A NULL pointer dereference could cause a crash when serving files
with a mtime of 0.


For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.13-4etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.14-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your lighttpd 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.


Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1098 ef3730d86ea77e526e66127d934f03c6
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