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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-3374-1 libmicrohttpd -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

30 Mar 2023

Affected Packages:

libmicrohttpd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2023-27371.

More information:

An issue has been found in linmicrohttpd, a library embedding HTTP server functionality. Parsing crafted POST requests result in an out of bounds read, which might cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.62-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libmicrohttpd packages.

For the detailed security status of libmicrohttpd please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libmicrohttpd

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