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[SA20741] Hiki Diff Denial of Service Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Jul 03 2006 - 10:02:04 CDT

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TITLE:
Hiki Diff Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20741

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20741/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Hiki 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/5809/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Hiki, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the diff
functionality. This can be exploited to consume a large amount of CPU
and memory resources on a vulnerable system by doing a diff between
large pages.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 0.6.0 through 0.6.5,
and 0.8.0 through 0.8.5.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.8.6.
http://hikiwiki.org/en/download.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://hikiwiki.org/en/advisory20060703.html
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2398836916/

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