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 - --------------------
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 - --------------------------------