DSA 1725-1: New websvn packages fix information leak

Posted by Bob on: 02/15/2009 04:50 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-1725-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
February 15, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : websvn
Vulnerability : programming error
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-0240
Debian Bug : 512191

Bas van Schaik discovered that WebSVN, a tool to view Subversion
repositories over the web, did not properly restrict access to private
repositories, allowing a remote attacker to read significant parts of
their content.

The old stable distribution (etch) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0-4+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has also been fixed in
version 2.0-4+lenny1.

We recommend that you upgrade your websvn 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 5.0 alias lenny
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/websvn/websvn_2.0-4+lenny1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 21217 fec9c4c9173ac5da1e6866b6afdb37ff
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/websvn/websvn_2.0-4+lenny1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1291 3b2910de66eb35b3650558c2a6b70d74
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/websvn/websvn_2.0.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 172005 047e02c0fa2948fdf98a3e348e3f1530

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/websvn/websvn_2.0-4+lenny1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 194618 f03bd2f1bf00ee0666368a85faf1a9ef

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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