Debian: New webcalendar package fixes information disclosure
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 766-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze July 26th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : webcalendar Vulnerability : authorisation failure Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2320 BugTraq ID : 14072 Debian Bug : 315671 A vulnerability has been discovered in webcalendar, a PHP based multi-user calendar, that can lead to the disclosure of sensitive information to unauthorised parties. the old stable distribution (woody) does not contain the webcalendar package. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.45-4sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.45-6. We recommend that you upgrade your webcalendar 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: 607 d5030eb9186aa90e841a4ca395da6a3a Size/MD5 checksum: 9808 80408685999e6f85c279a187697d194d Size/MD5 checksum: 612360 a6a66dc54cd293429b604fe6da7633a6 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 628586 4d2edb921316272f6ad043153bf1757a 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
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