DSA-1740-1 yaws -- denial of service

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 1.65-4etch4.

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_1.65-4etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch4_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yaws/yaws_1.65-4etch4_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

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

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.