USN-6770-1: Fossil regression

9 May 2024

Fossil regression

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  • fossil - DSCM with built-in wiki, http interface and server, tickets datab

Details

USN-6729-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server. The
update lead to the discovery of a regression in Fossil with
regards to the handling of POST requests that do not have a
Content-Length field set. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 23.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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