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Debian: DSA 1297-1 Critical: Gforge Plugin Shell Command Execution Issue

Bernhard R. Link discovered that the CVS browsing interface of Gforge, a collaborative development tool, performs insufficient escaping of URLs, which allows the execution of arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the www-data user.. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 1297-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff May 24th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : gforge-plugin-scmcvs Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-0246 Bernhard R. Link discovered that the CVS browsing interface of Gforge, a collaborative development tool, performs insufficient escaping of URLs, which allows the execution of arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the www-data user. The oldstable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-5. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-6. We recommend that you upgrade your gforge-plugin-scmcvs 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 - ------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 598 8738c271d0dc9944d6fbe3e68b4713d6 Size/MD5 checksum: 14336539a63598dc47a3d3be27ede648fea85e Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 91980 f3a9400e23d76e99a55a1e9739312f06 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. . Debian Security Advisory DSA 1297-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff May 24th, 200. bernhard, browsing, interface, gforge, collaborative, development. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

May 24, 2007 •Critical Debian