It was discovered that APR-util did not properly handle memory when destroying APR buckets. An attacker could exploit this and cause a denial of service via memory exhaustion.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
25 November 2010
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
It was discovered that APR-util did not properly handle memory when destroying APR buckets. An attacker could exploit this and cause a denial of service via memory exhaustion.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart any applications using APR-util, such as Subversion and Apache, to make all the necessary changes.
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