Date: 01 September 2009
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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2009.1233
New ikiwiki packages fix information disclosure
1 September 2009
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: ikiwiki
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 5
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact/Access: Access Privileged Data -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2009-2944
Original Bulletin:
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1875
Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on
platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators
running ikiwiki check for an updated version of the software for
their operating system.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1875-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
August 31, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : ikiwiki
Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-2944
Josh Triplett discovered that the blacklist for potentially harmful TeX
code of the teximg module of the Ikiwiki wiki compiler was incomplete,
resulting in information disclosure.
The old stable distribution (etch) is not affected.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.53.4.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1415926.
We recommend that you upgrade your ikiwiki 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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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ikiwiki/ikiwiki_2.53.4.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 768022 d2ab889b5aa29ed5c4910aebc5d10c82
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ikiwiki/ikiwiki_2.53.4.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1095 d4c29cc8a5c5e57bf73dff92738d2383
Architecture independent packages:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ikiwiki/ikiwiki_2.53.4_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 911086 6eac3777f3b38bc7e7a4a53571440b6e
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 <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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