Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1740-1 yaws -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 14 Mar 2009
- Affected Packages:
- yaws
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0751.
- More information:
-
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.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch1_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws-wiki_1.77-3+lenny1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws-chat_1.77-3+lenny1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws-mail_1.77-3+lenny1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws-yapp_1.77-3+lenny1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws-chat_1.77-3+lenny1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.77-3+lenny1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.