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Debian 5.0: DSA-2103-1 Critical: Smbind SQL Injection Threat

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Calendar Grey September 5, 2010
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Critical vulnerability in smbind library identified, detailed in Debian security announcement DSA-2103-1, users should upgrade promptly.
It was discovered that smbind, a PHP-based tool for managing DNS zones for BIND, does not properly validating input

Summary

It was discovered that smbind, a PHP-based tool for managing DNS zones
for BIND, does not properly validating input.
An unauthenticated remote attacker could execute arbitrary SQL commands
or gain access to the admin account.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.7-3+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.7-5, and will migrate to the testing distribution (squeeze)
shortly.

We recommend that you upgrade your smbind (0.4.7-3+lenny1) 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

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Package: smbind
CVE ID: none assigned yet

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