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Debian DSA-1740-1 : yaws - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35924

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the yaws package.

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.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1740

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35924

File Name: debian_DSA-1740.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/16/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:yaws, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0751

CWE: 399

DSA: 1740