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Debian DSA-1324 Critical: Hiki Remote File Deletion Risk

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2007
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA-2021 pertains to a flaw in the config tool, which enables unauthorized remote access through manipulated variables.
Kazuhiro Nishiyama found a vulnerability in hiki, a Wiki engine written in Ruby, which could allow a remote attacker to delete arbitary files which are writable to the Hiki user, v...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
0.8.6-1etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version
0.8.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your hiki (0.8.6-1etch1) 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 (stable)
- ---------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 5418 b57f6debe38f903c7615d738f5030060
Size/MD5 checksum: 571 22358a8449ae12c19fe6a80f8607a82f
...

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