Summary
The remote host is missing an update to hiki
announced via advisory DSA 1119-1.
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.
Solution
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.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201119-1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2006-3379 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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