Debian 4.0 etch: DSA-1639-1 Critical: Twiki Remote Command Execution
debian
September 19, 2008
It was discovered that twiki, a web based collaboration platform,
didn't properly sanitize the image parameter in its configuration script.
This could allow remote users to exe...
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your twiki 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: 657 402a4ba19643a0a537c9f790bd03c9d0
Size/MD5 checksum: 4264148 d984b90886c12601b76f51419bb5352b
Size/MD5 checksum: 40238 265511661493e751ffce5ba2b00c1555
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 4254028 cd6524136eca86aefb207cc86abce619
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its ...
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