DSA 1297-1: New gforge-plugin-scmcvs packages fix arbitrary shell command execution

Posted by Bob on: 05/24/2007 05:05 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1297-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
May 24th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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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
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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.

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge-plugin-scmcvs/gforge-plugin-scmcvs_4.5.14-5etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 598 8738c271d0dc9944d6fbe3e68b4713d6
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge-plugin-scmcvs/gforge-plugin-scmcvs_4.5.14-5etch1.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 143365 39a63598dc47a3d3be27ede648fea85e

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge-plugin-scmcvs/gforge-plugin-scmcvs_4.5.14-5etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 91980 f3a9400e23d76e99a55a1e9739312f06

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show lt;pkggt;' and http://packages.debian.org/lt;pkggt;
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