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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1740-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris
March 14, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : yaws
Vulnerability : denial of service
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CVE-2009-0751


It was discovered that yaws, a high performance HTTP 1.1 webserver, is
prone to a denial of service attack via a request with a large HTTP
header.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.77-3+lenny1.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.65-4etch1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.80-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your yaws package.

Upgrade instructions
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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
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Debian (oldstable)
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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 15050 de600331ea301eb9a8cd82987bbecac1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 742 5ff0d18eaf5b0982cab087a0da30546b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 775978 4c08ba6abb40e41a49066a4c35d66102

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 920326 bcdde19abfa0509a7fec5980ae4c6977

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 922808 f69d7ec4e1082067e8ce2c5b35088ed7

arm architecture (ARM)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 921284 74360fb5c5ace09cde4a0afe9612b35e

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 923758 b6f68cab4953d114197eecef7e89a5d7

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 921190 be465d69af82a67b1d0a5e4bf6e21984

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 923582 fa6d77670fee39cfc6bd1cd0c5532786

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 919572 a235d55de32b60a838b0ca92fa2e5308

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 920814 23d52c172afae1269fccc7a536418fbe

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 919460 39fca419254eaca0a843e4d5a8abfd5e

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 784600 ab81930fb47510802e13cd26cad09c73


Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
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Debian (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 838170 7e01d9e8f4fe12895c76081ee4cf7754
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1206 6b5844871553c42a824f401586aa46a1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 19814 253cfc5da27428df313c4e8b4dfbf93a

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws-wiki_1.77-3+lenny1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 200784 8731c7f94f6f3550f142f21d225d918d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws-chat_1.77-3+lenny1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 65076 65681b94bf96027c0684bb2d29db00e8
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws-mail_1.77-3+lenny1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 160840 efdcebae480d452dc628eb715e7f8b22
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws-yapp_1.77-3+lenny1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 66196 b281bb1587101a3e83d50ffe1e92f6fd

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 652508 3e474dff842f080a6897958243c6c0d8

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 652258 03053ee15e1b92456785a08e91e5d7e5

arm architecture (ARM)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 651702 06e61922443dc30ab4c0b144c34a7a2e

armel architecture (ARM EABI)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_armel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 649654 d752e8341ad8797bd0fb5879e53f07dd

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 652286 a87d4e8c7ed413812f8b59311c55a689

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 652642 de9b389be1cb7842b0d8584e0d0a1b18

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 653308 f9b75201e1191fb8dd7cf158631a9c89

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 653008 874547bac10ca979bfeeb065ed895bff

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 651392 37c53dd40471f02f2dfea75c788ea5f5

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 654140 c90a7a7f66fd0e2093d502a5893d9e08

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 651624 e7ecaf982f7f027475b3c8275e63c8c8

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 651006 6fbb95dace09ead71d6f335322de5171


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@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/
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