Debian: New webcalendar packages fix information leak
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 1056-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze May 15th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : webcalendar Vulnerability : verbose error message Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-2247 Debian Bug : 366927 David Maciejak noticed that webcalendar, a PHP-Based multi-user calendar, returns different error messages on login attempts for an invalid password and a non-existing user, allowing remote attackers to gain information about valid usernames. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a webcalendar package For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.45-4sarge4. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. 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: 610 1a88e45355b0ca1a474eba42ac6c8eb4 Size/MD5 checksum: 12135 a518268d52b8a4744dd31ae9a7b60d0c Size/MD5 checksum: 612360 a6a66dc54cd293429b604fe6da7633a6 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 629232 c83c6d64bf495a79cc6fad26b68708e0 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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