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Debian: DSA-1540-1 Urgent Lighttpd DoS Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey April 7, 2008
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Important Debian notice concerning lighttpd vulnerability leading to potential denial of service due to SSL error handling issues. Update advised.
It was discovered that lighttpd, a fast webserver with minimal memory footprint, was didn't correctly handle SSL errors
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security advisory denial of service critical Debian remote attack lighttpd SSL error

Summary


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.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Size/MD5 checksum: 1098 0d420a477511699665602b3c64b39179
Size/MD5 checksum: 793309 3a64323b8482b0e8a6246dbfdb4c39dc
Size/MD5 checksum: 37428 1f54c20fa199127e6db25176bcbe5902

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 99548 11dbb6f839e908c0d641249fb3d4fdc4

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 64532 d799861c011b78a8238777f49c6fb92d
Size/MD5 checksum: 318940 0e6314a5e92...

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