[Xitami] Fwd: Denial of service vulnerability in Xitami Open Source Web Server

Daniel Nowlin xitami@lists.xitami.org
Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:52:25 -0500


Anybody know how I should update my 2.5 version to the new version?  I am
running it on 2000 server as a service and want to keep it that way.
Daniel Nowlin
IATS DataCenter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Jonas" <johnj83@arbor-freight.com>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] Fwd: Denial of service vulnerability in Xitami Open
Source Web Server


> NOTE FOR WINDOWS USERS: What was xi win32.exes (the actual server) is
> xigui32.exe in the 2.4.d10 release just posted.  This is change from the
> 2.4.d7 version I was running and maybe other versions.  Since I start
> the server from a desktop icon all I had to do was change the shortcut,
> others may have to do something additional.
>
> Also, neither of the 2.4 or 2.5 zip files released today appear to have
> the installer included.  A major reason that I'm running Xitami is the
> installer had it up and running in under 10 minutes for a newbie to web
> servers.  Without the installer features it is hard to recommend Xitami
> to other newbies.
>
> Pieter Hintjens wrote:
>
> >"Pieter Hintjens" <ph@imatix.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>There will be an update of xitami.com with new versions of Xitami that
> >>fix this DoS later today.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >This update is now complete, there are new releases of Xitami/2.5 and
> >Xitami/2.4 on www.xitami.com.
> >
> >Note that the installation procedures have changed.
> >
> >If you are installing on top of an existing Windows installation,
> >just unzip the packages and chuck the .exe files into the Xitami
> >directory.  The single binary package contains several binaries, for
> >different execution models: GUI, console, service.
> >
> >If you are installing for Linux or Unix, you will have to build from
> >the source kit.  It _should_ be as simple as running "sh build.sh"
> >from the top-level directory but since we've changed the Xitami build
> >process completely to use a new make tool (RealiBase Boom, see
> >imatix.com), I expect there will be a few issues.
> >
> >-
> >Pieter Hintjens
> >iMatix Corporation
> >
> >
> >
> >
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