Debian 3.0: DSA-347-1 Moderate: SQL Injection Risk in Teapop

debian

July 10, 2003

The SQL modules do not properlyescape user-supplied strings before using them in SQL queries.

Topics Covered

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Summary

teapop, a POP-3 server, includes modules for authenticating usersagainst a PostgreSQL or MySQL database. These modules do not properly
escape user-supplied strings before using them in SQL queries. This
vulnerability could be exploited to execute arbitrary SQL under the
privileges of the database user as which teapop has authenticated.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.3.4-1woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.3.5-2.

We recommend that you update your teapop package.

Upgrade Instructions
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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.

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