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Debian 4.0 DSA-1473 Critical: Scponly Command Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey January 21, 2008
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1473 http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer January 21, 2008 ht
In addition, it was discovered that it was possible to invoke with scp with certain options that may lead to execution of arbitrary commands (CVE-2007-6415).

Summary


This update removes Subversion, rsync and Unison support from the
scponly package, and prevents scp from being invoked with the dangerous
options.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.6-1etch1.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed
in version 4.0-1sarge2.

The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your scponly 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 3.1 (oldstable)
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Size/MD5 checksum: 850...

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