Debian DSA 1421-1 Critical: Wesnoth Directory Traversal Threat
debian
December 6, 2007
A vulnerability has been discovered in Battle for Wesnoth that allows
remote attackers to read arbitrary files the user running the client
has access to on the machine running ...
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2-3.
For the stable backports distribution (etch-backports) this problem
has been fixed in version 1.2.8-1~bpo40+1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.8-1.
For the experimental distribution this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.12-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your wesnoth 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 at the end of this advisory:
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: 850 7a32bba9f1bc498c9f18d7f0b4e...
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