Summary
The remote host is missing an update to yaws
announced via advisory DSA 1740-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201740-1
Insight
It was discovered that yaws, a high performance HTTP 1.1 webserver, is prone to a denial of service attack via a request with a large HTTP header.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.77-3+lenny1.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.65-4etch1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.80-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your yaws package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-0751 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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