Debian: DSA-1477-1 Critical: Yarssr Input Sanitizing Issue
debian
January 27, 2008
Duncan Gilmore discovered that yarssr, an RSS aggregator and reader,
performs insufficient input sanitising, which could result in the
execution of arbitrary shell commands if a ...
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Summary
Due to a technical limitation of the archive management scripts, the
fix for the old stable distribution (sarge) needs to be postponed
by a few days.
We recommend that you upgrade your yarssr 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, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 6420 105059b6e1b31d82b77ae3bb2d788fa6
Size/MD5 checksum: 21077 1825b214043c8d37fc8bad6935f0137a
Size/MD5 checksum: 5...
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