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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2006.0501 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian]
New hiki packages fix denial of service
25 July 2006
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: hiki wiki
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
Impact: Denial of Service
Access: Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names: CVE-2006-3379
Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1119
http://hikiwiki.org/en/advisory20060703.html
Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on
platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators
running hiki wiki check for an updated version of the software for
their operating system.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1119-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
July 22nd, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : hiki
Vulnerability : design flaw
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2006-3379
BugTraq ID : 18785
Debian Bug : 378059
Akira Tanaka discovered a vulnerability in Hiki Wiki, a Wiki engine
written in Ruby that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service via high CPU consumption using by performing a diff between
large and specially crafted Wiki pages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.5-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.6-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your hiki package.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hiki/hiki_0.6.5-2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 561 fa72e16d4c5eb8108ccd603b3396bd76
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hiki/hiki_0.6.5-2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1573 46c81d7c9e5f52115df2fd91b6cc0bf4
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hiki/hiki_0.6.5.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 143468 11c97fe604d70fc42f6c198ec64018e9
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hiki/hiki_0.6.5-2_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 108780 b1e689405cc70854ad77f5be95a86606
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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