From debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Fri Jul 23 00:53:53 2004 From: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Resent-From: list@murphy.debian.org (SmartList) To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:54:09 -0700 Reply-To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Subject: [Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 534-1] New mailreader packages fix directory traversal vulnerability -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 534-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman July 22nd, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : mailreader Vulnerability : directory traversal Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2002-1581 A directory traversal vulnerability was discovered in mailreader whereby remote attackers could view arbitrary files with the privileges of the nph-mr.cgi process (by default, www-data) via relative paths and a null byte in the configLanguage parameter. For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.29-5woody1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you update your mailreader 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 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29-5woody1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 623 40827025821290e7130571a78fd0b06d http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29-5woody1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 39678 b172e5b8957ee2f6b44122e0d3c99e06 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 307934 8e2687227ac737f244994e19ca3ba575 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29-5woody1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 362912 d3708d9d7ecc4064797f12cbe7d8489e These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBAIvOArxCt0PiXR4RAqDwAKCB50r82Lo+qViykid4ltYvAgQwegCgrZ+i r6C1oBVSI+hEwVEytCvO70A= =PUix -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html