-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 798-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Stone September 2, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : webcalendar Vulnerability : remote code execution Problem-Type : input validation Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2717 A trivially-exploitable bug was discovered in webcalendar that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the HTTP daemon on a system running a vulnerable version. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain the webcalendar package. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.45-4sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed shortly. We recommend that you upgrade your webcalendar package immediately. 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 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 9908 ae927afd627778637759df5f2e4e8336 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 725 0e765e2795bba3a7ccaedea569f2475c http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 612360 a6a66dc54cd293429b604fe6da7633a6 Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge2_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 627470 1206a45774cad65c0b2b85bdc48a2d53 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQxg44Q0hVr09l8FJAQI8NAQAxzIFF24u4nS4YAgxH2DYMo0m+lzSsMfy hRIbHkgbOVCXi4tAAR/UsYeEI2Fh5En6CBjYHJ1tFRPhAlCspShTaQRpxwPUH6aI vYZPwYB1umNMlumwkIiBYgcoAT11ymLfHuloosBUV4WmnEF3BdYC1K8m/tI6v4z8 NbehXMMEV6c= =4Gmy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
