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Updated package.. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 1242-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff December 27th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : elog Vulnerability : several Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-5063 CVE-2006-5790 CVE-2006-5791 CVE-2006-6318 Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in elog, a web-based electronic logbook, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2006-5063 Tilman Koschnick discovered that log entry editing in HTML is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This update disables the vulnerable code. CVE-2006-5790 Ulf Harnhammar of the Debian Security Audit Project discovered several format string vulnerabilities in elog, which may lead to execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2006-5791 Ulf Harnhammar of the Debian Security Audit Project discovered cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the creation of new logbook entries. CVE-2006-6318 Jayesh KS and Arun Kethipelly of OS2A discovered that elog performs insufficient error handling in config file parsing, which may lead to denial of service through a NULL pointer dereference. For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3. The upcoming stable distribution (etch) will no longer include elog. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.2+r1754-1. We recommend that you upgrade your elog package. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referencedfile. 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 - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 581 c072e867caa0058ac44cbd69c6afff51 Size/MD5 checksum: 23758 0718302e60a98844f27cd6eab336c5ce Size/MD5 checksum: 538216 e05c9fdaa02692ce20c70a5fd2748fe3 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 556190 081bd3b98bea9516c26b487024d6140f AMD64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 512510 48ee1c675cefa6a0b0af01f7cbb9f079 ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 517072 5e4a4dc726a8a0bf75f05de3fe17e07c HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 544448 5f5c83341837c6dd18211b4164bbd1dc Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 514786 c14108b91d171ac38b0104ae769cfc96 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 598224 df22b05edfb9dfab43cc69233f2d88e4 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 482826 254d8a1f1cae62719a9f6f2a461cffd8 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 522074 909b22df0ac8302bd7b00b8338511198 Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 525164 278bc7397817c8f6a8a44d2879f0682c PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 524304 37438b8fff9c0b162aa6870fd5c7ba31 IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 515148 32cf397b104321646de736141a90354d Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 519788 b532c963d03d66f4e32861531adefe4e These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb https://www.debian.org/security/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Urgent security alert issued for Ubuntu highlights several remote vulnerabilities in the log package requiring immediate patching.. Debian Security Advisory, Elog Package Fix, Remote Execution Threat. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
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