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Debian: DSA-1362 A Moderate Advisory on Lighttpd DoS Vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in lighttpd, a fast webserver with minimal memory footprint. The use of mod_auth could leave to a denial of service attack crashing the webserver.. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1362 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp August 29th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : lighttpd Vulnerability : various Problem type : local/remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-3946 Debian Bug : 434888 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in lighttpd, a fast webserver with minimal memory footprint. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-3946 The use of mod_auth could leave to a denial of service attack crashing the webserver CVE-2007-3947 The improper handling of repeated HTTP headers could cause a denial of serve attack crashing the webserver. CVE-2007-3949 A bug in mod_access potentially allows remote users to bypass access restrictions via trailing slash characters. CVE-2007-3950 On 32-bit platforms users may be able to create denial of service attacks, crashing the webserver, via mod_webdav, mod_fastcgi, or mod_scgi. For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.13-4etch3. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.16-1. 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 internaldatabase apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. 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