bugtraq - [SECURITY] [DSA 1119-1] New hiki packages fix denial of service

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Message-Id: <20060722153740.78040FDE2@finlandia.home.infodrom.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:37:40 +0200 (CEST)
From: joey@...odrom.org (Martin Schulze)
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 1119-1] New hiki packages fix denial of service

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1119-1                    security@...ian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
July 22nd, 2006                         http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : hiki
Vulnerability  : design flaw
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CVE-2006-3379
BugTraq ID     : 18785
Debian Bug     : 378059

Akira Tanaka discovered a vulnerability in Hiki Wiki, a Wiki engine
written in Ruby that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service via high CPU consumption using by performing a diff between
large and specially crafted Wiki pages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.5-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your hiki 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 at the end of this advisory:

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 3.1 alias sarge
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hiki/hiki_0.6.5-2.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      561 fa72e16d4c5eb8108ccd603b3396bd76
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hiki/hiki_0.6.5-2.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:     1573 46c81d7c9e5f52115df2fd91b6cc0bf4
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hiki/hiki_0.6.5.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   143468 11c97fe604d70fc42f6c198ec64018e9

  Architecture independent components:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hiki/hiki_0.6.5-2_all.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   108780 b1e689405cc70854ad77f5be95a86606


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@...ts.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>

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