Explore top 10 tips to secure your open-source projects now. Read More

×
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 456
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 456

Debian: DSA-1959-1 Critical: Ganeti Command Execution Issue

debian
Calendar Grey December 19, 2009
Debian Logo
The advisory DSA-1959-1 concerning Debian highlights significant vulnerabilities related to command execution in ganeti packages, necessitating immediate updates to bolster system security.
It was discovered that ganeti, a virtual server cluster manager, does not validate the path of scripts passed as arguments to certain commands, which allows local or remote users (...

Summary

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.6-3+lenny2.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed
in version 2.0.5-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.5-1.

The oldstable distribution (etch) does not include ganeti.


We recommend that you upgrade your ganeti packages.

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 5.0 alias lenny (stable)

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 6912 766a061e63ca295c83ec9d81e71790f6
Size/MD5 checksum: 843282 ccc54866e02be044987027a827b1be03
...

Read the Full Advisory

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.