Gentoo: GLSA 202012-09 Low Severity: Cherokee DoS Advisory
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December 23, 2020
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Cherokee, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition.
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cherokee. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
Resolution
Gentoo has discontinued support for Cherokee. We recommend that usersunmerge package:
# emerge --unmerge "www-servers/cherokee"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2006-1681 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1681 [ 2 ] CVE-2019-20798 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20798 [ 3 ] CVE-2019-20799 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20799 [ 4 ] CVE-2019-20800 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20800 [ 5 ] CVE-2020-12845 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12845
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09
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Concerns
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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Severity: Low
Title: Cherokee: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 23, 2020
Bugs: #715204
ID: 202012-09
Background
Cherokee is an extra-light web server.
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Affected Packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 www-servers/cherokee <= 1.2.104-r2 Vulnerable!
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NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate
to another package if one is available or wait for the
existing packages to be marked stable by their
architecture maintainers.
Impact
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Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
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