Debian 4.0 DSA-1540-3 Critical Lighttpd SSL Denial of Service
debian
July 23, 2008
It was discovered that lighttpd, a fast webserver with minimal memory
footprint, was didn't correctly handle SSL errors
Topics Covered
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.13-4etch10.
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: 36023 5421eda86388cddf30348ee39c8b2059
Size/MD5 checksum: 793309 3a64323b8482b0e8a6246dbfdb4c39dc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1392 6011ac4224ab8ff0c1c9355f30ab11a9
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 100096 416759ae3a223ab799bbc7b264329600
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checks...
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