Debian 4.0 DSA-1580-1: Severe PhpgEdView Privilege Escalation Issue
debian
May 20, 2008
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 ...
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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