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Debian 4.0 DSA-1580-1: Severe PhpgEdView Privilege Escalation Issue

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Calendar Grey May 20, 2008
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1580-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst May 20, 2008 htt
It was discovered that phpGedView, an application to provide online access to genealogical data, allowed remote attackers to gain administrator privileges due to a programming ...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.2.dfsg-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.1.e+4.1.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpgedview 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: 6181964 73b1f051f01dcd6520a044badaa40fe6
Size/MD5 checksum: 8182 834f82b6f3a2512211e8e25dc99ebb44
Size/MD5 checksum: 1053 8058483846a8b7e51301ed3fac097cdd

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 120...

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