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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2368-1 lighttpd -- multiple vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

20 Dec 2011

Affected Packages:

lighttpd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 652726.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-4362, CVE-2011-3389.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in lighttpd, a small and fast webserver with minimal memory footprint.

• CVE-2011-4362

  Xi Wang discovered that the base64 decoding routine which is used to decode user input during an HTTP authentication, suffers of a signedness issue when processing user input. As a result it is possible to force lighttpd to perform an out-of-bounds read which results in Denial of Service conditions.

• CVE-2011-3389

  When using CBC ciphers on an SSL enabled virtual host to communicate with certain client, a so called BEAST attack allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP traffic via a blockwise chosen-boundary attack (BCBA) on an HTTPS session. Technically this is no lighttpd vulnerability. However, lighttpd offers a workaround to mitigate this problem by providing a possibility to disable CBC ciphers.

  This updates includes this option by default. System administrators are advised to read the NEWS file of this update (as this may break older clients).

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.19-5+lenny3.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.28-2+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.30-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your lighttpd packages.