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Debian 5.0 DSA-1752-1: WebCit Remote Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2009
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Enhance webcit libraries to rectify formatting string vulnerabilities that could enable remote code execution in Debian environments.
Wilfried Goesgens discovered that WebCit, the web-based user interface for the Citadel groupware system, contains a format string vulnerability in the mini_calendar component, poss...

Summary

Wilfried Goesgens discovered that WebCit, the web-based user interface
for the Citadel groupware system, contains a format string
vulnerability in the mini_calendar component, possibly allowing
arbitrary code execution (CVE-2009-0364).

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.37-dfsg-7.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.38b-dfsg-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your webcit packages.

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: 1192317 e3e47149a6553e436...

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Package: webcit

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