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Debian Security Advisory                             security@debian.org
Debian -- Security Information       
                   Wichert Akkerman
December  9, 1999
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Package           : htdig
Vulnerability type: remote exploit
Debian-specific   : no

The version of htdig that was shipped in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has a problem
with calling external programs to handle non-HTML documents: it calls
the external program with the document as a parameter, but does not check
for shell escapes. This can be exploited by creating files with filenames
that include shell escapes to run arbitraty commands on the machine that
runs htdig.

This has been fixed in version 3.1.2-4slink6. We recommend you upgrade your
htdig package immediately.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
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  This version of Debian was released only for Intel ia32, the Motorola
  680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

  Source archives:
     .
1.2-4slink6.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 9151d7e15d7a2759958c09e6c21f28de
     
4slink6.dsc
      MD5 checksum: fc05d22813afaa9fce10e97a5437ed69
     .1.2.orig.ta
r.gz
      MD5 checksum: ddd0305d420e2d6025694d4e1448d5f7

  Alpha architecture:
     
alpha/htdig_3.1.2-4slink6_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 1f816b0af2dd5919524d26be2017ec62

  Intel ia32 architecture:
     
i386/htdig_3.1.2-4slink6_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: da77c99388d3d9d09afecb2c9f345d58

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
     
m68k/htdig_3.1.2-4slink6_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 48986e8f5323db7b899c6341b87c3d4d

  Sun Sparc architecture:
     
sparc/htdig_3.1.2-4slink6_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: fcd3181ad76a72e82db2f769d88ff18c


  These files will be moved into
    soon.


For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory   .

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