Debian: New webcalendar packages fix remote code execution
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 798-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Stone September 2, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : webcalendar Vulnerability : remote code execution Problem-Type : input validation Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2717 A trivially-exploitable bug was discovered in webcalendar that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the HTTP daemon on a system running a vulnerable version. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain the webcalendar package. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.45-4sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed shortly. We recommend that you upgrade your webcalendar package immediately. 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: 9908 ae927afd627778637759df5f2e4e8336 Size/MD5 checksum: 725 0e765e2795bba3a7ccaedea569f2475c Size/MD5 checksum: 612360 a6a66dc54cd293429b604fe6da7633a6 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 627470 1206a45774cad65c0b2b85bdc48a2d53 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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