Debian: DSA-1450 High: wget Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
debian
August 28, 2007
Sebastian Krahmer discovered that rsync, a fast remote file copy program,
contains an off-by-one error which might allow remote attackers to execute
arbitary code via long direct...
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Summary
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem is not presnt.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your rsync 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: 811841 996d8d8831dbca17910094e56dcb5942
Size/MD5 checksum: 566 88e831455ff40fb1304f9b24b172b4e8
Size/MD5 checksum: 50070 acd89cbfb221bff96ca9732332e4ae43
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 294200 a2ddf8c18592ca6e20fa33663d08...
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