Debian: DSA-1513-1 Critical CGI Source Exposure in Lighttpd
debian
March 6, 2008
It was discovered that lighttpd, a fast webserver with minimal memory
footprint, would display the source to CGI scripts if their execution
failed in some circumstances.
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution, this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your lighttpd 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: 36835 fa55bbf4bf1b9a555cc4b7b368a059f6
Size/MD5 checksum: 793309 3a64323b8482b0e8a6246dbfdb4c39dc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1098 52f5881ec943188d8276c600902c84f5
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 99430 b13f37c0c8b55e145e6f823d5dd82dee
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 71646 3d0308407b0b0...
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