A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Drupal, a fully-featured content management framework. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause CPU and memory exhaustion and the site's database to reach the maximum number of open connections, leading to the site becoming unavailable or unresponsive. More information can be found at https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004 .

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 7.14-2+deb7u6. For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 7.31-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 7.31-1. We recommend that you upgrade your drupal7 packages.

Drupal is a dynamic web site platform which allows an individual or community of users to publish, manage and organize a variety of content, Drupal integrates many popular features of content management systems, weblogs, collaborative tools and discussion-based community software into one easy-to-use package.

drupal7 on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25