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Debian Lenny: DSA-1725-1 Critical: WebSVN Remote Access Issue

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2009
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1725-2 deals with a vulnerability in WebSVN that causes sensitive data exposure, rectifying remote exploitation risks.
Bas van Schaik discovered that WebSVN, a tool to view Subversion repositories over the web, did not properly restrict access to private repositories, allowing a remote attacker to ...
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Summary

The old stable distribution (etch) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0-4+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has also been fixed in
version 2.0-4+lenny1.

We recommend that you upgrade your websvn package.

Upgrade instructions
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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 5.0 alias lenny

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 21217 fec9c4c9173ac5da1e6866b6afdb37ff
Size/MD5 checksum: 1291 3b2910de66eb35b3650558c2a6b70d74
Size/MD5 checksum: 172005 047e02c0fa2948fdf98a3e348e3f1530

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