Debian: New phppgadmin packages fix directory traversal vulnerability
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 759-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze July 18th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : phppgadmin Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2256 BugTraq ID : 14142 A vulnerability has been discovered in phppgadmin, a set of PHP scripts to administrate PostgreSQL over the WWW, that can lead to disclose sensitive information. Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled. the old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.2-5. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.4. We recommend that you upgrade your phppgadmin package. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------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 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 584 46f4509ee768781e441286d125afe0f5 Size/MD5 checksum: 10063 8f1d0323ae84979c21a409334c6e70db Size/MD5 checksum: 612995 9978c0a723a9e4572f2264478c0ba193 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 601022 b9e4117adf7ef565e6884fbde4daaf9f These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org