Debian: mailreader Directory traversal vulnerability
Summary
A directory traversal vulnerability was discovered in mailreader
whereby remote attackers could view arbitrary files with the
privileges of the nph-mr.cgi process (by default, www-data) via
relative paths and a null byte in the configLanguage parameter.
For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been
fixed in version 2.3.29-5woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your mailreader 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
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 623 40827025821290e7130571a78fd0b06d
Size/MD5 checksum: 39678 b172e5b8957ee2f6b44122e0d3c99e06
Size/MD5 checksum: 307934 8e2687227ac737f244994e19ca3ba575
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 362912 d3708d9d7ecc4064797f12cbe7d8489e
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show