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Debian: New feta packages fix denial of service  05 October 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the "to-upgrade" plugin of Feta, a simpler interface to APT, dpkg, and other Debian package tools creates temporary files insecurely, which may lead to local denial of service through symlink attacks.
 
Debian: New python-dns package fixes regression  22 September 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
In DSA-1619-1, an update was announced for DNS response spoofing vulnerabilities in python-dns. The fix introduced a regression in the library breaking the resolution of UTF-8 encoded record names. An updated release is available which corrects this problem. For reference, the original advisory text follows.
 
Debian: New wordnet packages fix regression  20 September 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
A regression was discovered in the original patch addressing this issue for WordNet, which this update fixes. For reference the text of the original advisory follows.
 
Debian: New horde3 packages fix cross site scripting  20 September 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Will Drewry discovered that the Horde, allows remote attackers to send an email with a crafted MIME attachment filename attribute to perform cross site scripting.
 
Debian: New phpmyadmin packages fix several issues  20 September 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, a tool to administrate MySQL databases over the web. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
 
Debian: New python-django packages fix cross site request forgery  20 September 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Simon Willison discovered that in Django, a Python web framework, the feature to retain HTTP POST data during user reauthentication allowed a remote attacker to perform unauthorized modification of data through cross site request forgery. The is possible regardless of the Django plugin to prevent cross site request forgery being enabled. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies this issue as
 
Debian: New twiki packages execution of arbitrary code  19 September 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
It was discovered that twiki, a web based collaboration platform, didn't properly sanitize the image parameter in its configuration script. This could allow remote users to execute arbitrary commands upon the system, or read any files which were readable by the webserver user.
 
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