Debian: DSA 933-1 Critical: Hylafax Arbitrary Command Execution
debian
January 27, 2006
Patrice Fournier found that hylafax passes unsanitized user data in the
notify script, allowing users with the ability to submit jobs to run
arbitrary commands with the privileg...
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.2.1-5sarge3.
For the unstable distribution the problem has been fixed in version
4.2.4-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your hylafax 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 3.0 alias woody
Size/MD5 checksum: 800 c9fd457c2782971a41c8328435b00ece
Size/MD5 checksum: 116777 a2c212abd4a22134b673b3df345cb779
Size/MD5 checksum: 1287689 1ed081750be70a800708699b7568e17e
Architecture independent components:
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