Debian Etch DSA-1501-1 Critical: dspam Local Information Leak
debian
February 21, 2008
Tobias Gruetzmacher discovered that a Debian-provided CRON script in dspam,
a statistical spam filter, included a database password on the command line
when using the MySQL backe...
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Summary
The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain the dspam package.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.6.8-5.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your dspam package.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 743275 c4b1a7079690ee16d8b0f36b2a2a90a4
Size/MD5 checksum: 1425 aca91c929ec1c4e3f575e7e8eb37ba55
Size/MD5 checksum: 53607 9e4fa44cfd9154eeea77a895d08e2952
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 94508 22874dcda2fff6d04a0c...
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