Roland Lezuo and Josselin Mouette discovered that the libsoup HTTP library performs insufficient sanitising when parsing HTTP headers, which might lead to denial of service.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.3-2sarge1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.98-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.98-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your libsoup package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
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 below:
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 - --------------------------------