Debian: New gallery2 packages fix privilege escalation
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 1404-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst November 8th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : gallery2 Vulnerability : programming error Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-4650 Nicklous Roberts discovered that the Reupload module of Gallery 2, a web based photo management application, allowed unauthorized users to edit Gallery's data file. The oldstable distribution (sarge) does not contain a gallery2 package. The previous gallery package is not affected by this vulnerability. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.2-2.0.etch.1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your gallery2 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 4.0 alias etch - ------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 884 1292cd38f037d14233c50c82f2656559 Size/MD5 checksum: 17103 96a6d2095129554de20e23203ff07cfa Size/MD5 checksum: 9506000 0603fedf38581e11c27a78d451f2730f Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 9623730 6292925bcfc5b35ef7c7493b0869019d 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