Debian: DSA-1517-1 Critical: ldapscripts Local Information Leak
debian
March 15, 2008
Don Armstrong discovered that ldapscripts, a suite of tools to manipulate
user accounts in LDAP, sends the password as a command line argument when
calling LDAP programs, which...
Topics Covered
Summary
The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain an ldapscripts package.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version
1.7.1-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your ldapscripts 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: 18812 3e063297a5188922803a451cdbf7dd61
Size/MD5 checksum: 8429 4d4fd01f12940bf2272cf9b2a27e34c5
Size/MD5 checksum: 883 dabe3144f01910f1f055a2a6d9b63148
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 28482 52a069bdb720...
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