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Debian: DSA 1066-1 Critical: phpbb2 Input Flaw Code Execution

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Calendar Grey May 20, 2006
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Tackling phpbb2's poor input validation which permits script penetration. Upgrade advisable for all Debian installations.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.13+1-6sarge3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpbb2 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 719 517bf7f4c266f26f3ef9a9be6d7c571f
Size/MD5 checksum: 65253 01f4762f95f68fb8c1681ee9d4d6faa1
Size/MD5 checksum: 3340445 678d0cb0372e46402a472c510fb90d78

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 3...

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