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ESB-2003.0011 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 223-1 -- New geneweb packages fix information exposure

Date: 08 January 2003

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            ESB-2003.0011 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 223-1
               New geneweb packages fix information exposure
                              08 January 2003

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:                geneweb
Vendor:                 Debian
Operating System:       Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
                        Linux
                        UNIX
Impact:                 Read-only Data Access
Access Required:        Remote

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 223-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
January 7th, 2003                       http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : geneweb
Vulnerability  : information exposure
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id         : CAN-2002-1390

A security issue has been discovered by Daniel de Rauglaudre, upstream
author of geneweb, a genealogical software with web interface.  It
runs as a daemon on port 2317 by default.  Paths are not properly
sanitized, so a carefully crafted URL lead geneweb to read and display
arbitrary files of the system it runs on.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 4.06-2.

The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been
fixed in version 4.09-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your geneweb package.

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 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      610 55ccdf8143b1a96e056094de24e31074
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    23357 1a3a36cbcef4e48b6a1effc5685023b6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   832896 a64a4373cb82d6a3044718c7345e45f7

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:  2336984 4a1a0e637ca669de6eefbf268a764d84
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   207902 d9aadcc1d453da3ca8526823d2a152d7

  ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_arm.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1944708 9034949c9a7e0bef78fbfd300e23e30b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_arm.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   169542 dbfebb1e79bed418b115f9d70ca3e550

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1684746 5057e9e6b03bb4d0d6878952b501e219
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   144480 9c0734678de3b35399d98b421bf6943e

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_ia64.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   985752 07f39fee8a2d299dec7745a663dd92d7
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_ia64.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   108274 da31852ab48cd19d6f31508706fecbf5

  HP Precision architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_hppa.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   865398 9cc1369fe825651dd1b94b405606985a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_hppa.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    88378 28813c61dfe7b9122497b163a453c18e

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_m68k.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   769050 51b9e4662732cfe495f46179ee421144
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_m68k.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    72366 5b9bfb854358d5698636fcb579ce341a

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_mips.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   830858 81707ac5153dbce3ef43814bb80ff0a1
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_mips.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    82782 cbafd1fa38f65e89f998ff85fe57502f

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_mipsel.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   828578 4ecbe3e11bdd06060c68ac8f056c1236
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_mipsel.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    82214 0f60da0df4e805b18b4bb47cfa18bea8

  PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1974062 53677870c90407d1ed124eac472696e4
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   172486 79a42dfd21220c05b1d26b356e4478b2

  IBM S/390 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_s390.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   806194 0f5b03a1f318cae873669d085acbde04
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_s390.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    78434 902398e1ee72b17fd6a7572a82ed3d62

  Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:  2014210 9ce8b277ce809345177d262cfd296991
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   176504 9ce117759d03a1ef4a5db0c80de25cf7


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

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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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