Executive Summary

Summary
Title New hiki packages fix denial of service
Informations
Name DSA-1119 First vendor Publication 2006-07-22
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2006-07-22
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1119

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 12

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1119-1 (hiki)
File : nvt/deb_1119_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
26970 Hiki Diff Generation Process Consumption DoS

Hiki contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when a diff between two large pages occurs, and will result in loss of availability for the platform.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1119.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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