Package : libapreq2-perl Vulnerability : design error Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-0042 BugTraq ID : 16710 Debian Bug : 354060 358689
Gunnar Wolf noticed that the correction for the following problem was not complete and requires an update. For completeness we're providing the original problem description:
An algorithm weakness has been discovered in Apache2::Request, the generic request library for Apache2 which can be exploited remotely and cause a denial of service via CPU consumption.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain this package.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.04-dev-1sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.07-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libapreq2, libapache2-mod-apreq2 and libapache2-request-perl packages.
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 - --------------------------------