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TITLE:
Yaws Request Headers Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33979

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33979/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to the application not properly
handling requests with a large number of headers and can be exploited
to crash the service.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.80.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Manuel Duran Aguete.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://yaws.hyber.org/

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