DSA 1405-1: New zope-cmfplone packages fix arbitrary code execution

Posted by Bob on: 11/10/2007 06:15 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 1405-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
November 9th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : zope-cmfplone
Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5741
Debian Bug : 449523

It was discovered that Plone, a web content management system, allows
remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted web
browser cookies.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.1-4etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your zope-cmfplone 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/z/zope-cmfplone/zope-cmfplone_2.5.1-4etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1114 dccc6173d55e9fedbe5a7b91d84a5721
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope-cmfplone/zope-cmfplone_2.5.1-4etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 10922 3a83d9323ac5285ac3d5cbde1d54e5f7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope-cmfplone/zope-cmfplone_2.5.1.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1064993 b48215d46aafa9e1f12196263d86a191

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope-cmfplone/plone-site_2.5.1-4etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 9828 318b81cff9a5bf4bf352743c46095693
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope-cmfplone/zope-cmfplone_2.5.1-4etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1190788 49e266b7a7910079c92e039a910c4903

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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