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Debian: DSA 739-1 Moderate: Trac Remote Execution Risk Due to Input Flaw

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Calendar Grey July 6, 2005
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Debian Security Notice DSA 739-1 highlights a flaw in Trac's input handling, which could potentially allow for remote code execution vulnerabilities.
Stefan Esser discovered an input validation flaw within Trac, a wiki and issue tracking system, that allows download/upload of files and therefore can lead to remote code executi...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.1-3sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your trac 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 655 17707ec452bb497b18b22a8280b775d6
Size/MD5 checksum: 6294 386a1ffa63b1ba8709ad317176f1d419
Size/MD5 checksum: 236791 1b6c44fae90c760074762b73cdc88c8d

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 chec...

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security advisory security issue software update remote code execution Debian input validation Trac

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