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Debian: DSA 471-1 Critical: Interchange Input Flaw Exposes Sensitive Data

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Calendar Grey April 5, 2004
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The Fedora Security Notice alerts users to a flaw in the kernel concerning inadequate boundary checking, potentially allowing malicious entities to access sensitive data.
This vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to expose the content of arbitrary variables.

Summary

A vulnerability was discovered recently in Interchange, an e-commerce
and general HTTP database display system. This vulnerability can be
exploited by an attacker to expose the content of arbitrary variables.
An attacker may learn SQL access information for your Interchange
application and use this information to read and manipulate sensitive
data.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.0.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your interchange 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 ...

Read the Full Advisory

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Package: interchange
CVE ID: CAN-2004-0374

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