Debian 7: DSA-2765-2 Critical: Davfs2 Privilege Escalation Fix
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July 16, 2014
The update released for davfs2 in DSA 2765 had a version number for Debian 7 "wheezy" that sorts lower than the version in Debian 6 "squeeze", causing problems on upgrades
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Summary
For reference, the original advisory follows.
Davfs2, a filesystem client for WebDAV, calls the function system()
insecurely while is setuid root. This might allow a privilege escalation.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.6-1.1+wheezy1.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: davfs2
CVE ID: CVE-2013-4362
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