Debian: mantis Incorrect permissions vulnerability
Summary
mantis, a PHP/MySQL web based bug tracking system, stores the password
used to access its database in a configuration file which is
world-readable. This could allow a local attacker to read the
password and gain read/write access to the database.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.17.1-3.
For the old stable distribution (potato) does not contain a mantis
package.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version
0.17.5-6.
We recommend that you update your mantis package.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 577 51599356a83dc1b315fc7e6f21d338ff
Size/MD5 checksum: 15264 4a65805f85b2e70ab61f61446ab29336
Size/MD5 checksum: 220458 d8bac093eaf31ef5812e714db5c07f82
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 250314 e47ccc4eec1d97677a7fa350565ed98a
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.