Debian: lxr filename sanitizing vulnerability
Summary
Upstream developers of lxr, a general hypertext cross-referencing
tool, have been alerted of a vulnerability that allows a remote
attacker to read arbitrary files on the host system as user www-data.
This could disclose local files that were not meant to be shared with
the public.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 0.3-3.
The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected since it does not
contain an lxr package.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been
fixed in version 0.3-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your lxr 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 3.0 alias woody
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 529 2247880271390dcc2e8b5840e35b8740
Size/MD5 checksum: 4741 c4ac9ea82443f00fc6d893eac95d0eb6
Size/MD5 checksum: 29354 57417ee8fdafef8e04141690c7a8b6aa
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 25916 7afae8f316b5d49460ec228ce65505e3
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 25930 3f0c071bd857b60094bab17710740feb
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 25922 b0e19c5aaf6930b9e88d1a2dd0e4828e
Intel IA-64 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 25916 30f33037dbf3b0c7a2f38e4792253ff9
HP Precision architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 25924 a3afbdeca4e74064c2ad93f8d89f02cb
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 25954 57d078cff179225eb026275f21e7ffff
Big endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 25920 3051ef49ccd9cceeb6bc2c4ade214227
Little endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 25944 64c72605a28df3c8f8e0b7728509c3fe
PowerPC architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 25918 f282e391627defac8898b78da1eb5f1a
IBM S/390 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 25912 3911d941d4036b6eab20b06ceb572e59
Sun Sparc architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 25922 2c54bb734a88ae4f52eee6a2331359ec
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show