Debian: DSA 650-1 Urgent Update for Diatheke Command Execution Fix
debian
January 20, 2005
Ulf Härnhammar discovered that due to missing input sanitising in
diatheke, a CGI script for making and browsing a bible website, it is
possible to execute arbitrary commands vi...
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your diatheke 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 3.0 alias woody
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Alpha architecture:
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