Debian: DSA 1301-1 High: Python2 SSL Protocol Vulnerability
debian
May 21, 2007
It was discovered that the ftp extension of PHP, a server-side,
HTML-embedded scripting language performs insufficient input sanitising,
which permits an attacker to execute arbi...
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed
in version 4.4.4-8+etch3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem won't be fixed, as php4
will be removed from sid; thus you are strongly advised to migrate to
php5 if you prefer to follow the unstable distribution.
We recommend that you upgrade your PHP packages. Packages for the Sparc
architectures are not yet available, due to problems on the build host. They
will be provided later.
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
Size/MD5 checksum: 1686 0a...
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