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Debian LTS DLA-2384-1 Critical: Yaws Command Injection and XML Attacks

debian lts
Calendar Grey September 26, 2020
Dist Debian Esm H88
Debian LTS Advisory DLA-2384-1 highlights crucial security vulnerabilities in yaws, notably command injection and XML-related exploits.
Two issues have been found in yaws, a high performance HTTP 1.1 webserver written in Erlang
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Summary

Two issues have been found in yaws, a high performance HTTP 1.1 webserver
written in Erlang.

CVE-2020-24379
Reject external resource requests in DAV in order to avoid
XML External Entity (XXE) attackes.

CVE-2020-24916
Sanitize CGI executable in order to avoid command injection
via CGI requests.


For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version
2.0.4+dfsg-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your yaws packages.

For the detailed security status of yaws please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/yaws

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS



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Package: yaws
Version: 2.0.4+dfsg-1+deb9u1
CVE ID: CVE-2020-24379 CVE-2020-24916

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