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Debian: DSA-1990-1 Critical Shell Code Injection in Trac-Git

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Calendar Grey February 3, 2010
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A security flaw in trac-git enables unauthorized command execution on impacted Debian platforms. Prompt upgrade recommended.
Stefan Goebel discovered that the Debian version of trac-git, the Git add-on for the Trac issue tracking system, contains a flaw which enables attackers to execute code on the web ...

Summary

Stefan Goebel discovered that the Debian version of trac-git, the Git
add-on for the Trac issue tracking system, contains a flaw which
enables attackers to execute code on the web server running trac-git
by sending crafted HTTP queries.

The old stable distribution (etch) does not contain a trac-git package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.0.20080710-3+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) and the testing distribution
(squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.20090320-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your trac-git 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 ...

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Package: trac-git

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