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[DSA1119] DSA-1119-1 hiki

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-1119-1 hiki

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Akira Tanaka discovered a vulnerability in Hiki Wiki, a Wiki engine
written in Ruby that permits 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.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1119
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 18785

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

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