Debian: DSA-1550-1 Moderate: suphp Local Escalation Threat
debian
April 17, 2008
It was discovered that suphp, an Apache module to run PHP scripts with
owner permissions handles symlinks insecurely, which may lead to
privilege escalation by local users.
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your suphp packages.
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 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc and s390.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 84478 1a1eede94aac39e7e7a2b6113c1ecc92
Size/MD5 checksum: 372241 3ee72ad0198587b533045add6681c884
Size/MD5 checksum: 790 3aa0720205a32221eb52a981ddcdfd89
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 check...
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