Debian 4.0 DSA-1508-1 Moderate: Diatheke Arbitrary Shell Command Execution
debian
February 25, 2008
Dan Dennison discovered that Diatheke, a CGI program to make a bible
website, performs insufficient sanitising of a parameter, allowing a
remote attacker to execute arbitrary she...
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Summary
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.5.7-7sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version
1.5.9-8.
We recommend that you upgrade your diatheke 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
Size/MD5 checksum: 938 4f7872250c457ac36f0b20b4be235647
Size/MD5 checksum: 277640 f8993cddacdac25ca55b7e99ced8ff49
Size/MD5 checksum: 1482711 369f09068839c646aeab691c63a40d67
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 861694...
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