DSA 720-1: New smartlist packages fix unauthorised un/subscription
Posted on: 05/03/2005 02:37 PM
New smartlist packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 720-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze May 3rd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : smartlist Vulnerability : wrong input processing Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0157
Jeroen van Wolffelaar noticed that the confirm add-on of SmartList, the listmanager used on lists.debian.org, which is used on that host as well, could be tricked to subscribe arbitrary addresses to the lists.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.15-5.woody.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.15-18.
We recommend that you upgrade your smartlist 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 3.0 alias woody ---------------------------------