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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2009.1158 New mantis packages fix information leak 10 August 2009 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: mantis Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 5 Impact/Access: Unauthorised Access -- Existing Account Resolution: Patch/Upgrade Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1856 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1856-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst August 08, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : mantis Vulnerability : information leak Problem type : local Debian-specific: yes Debian Bug : 425010 It was discovered that the Debian Mantis package, a web based bug tracking system, installed the database credentials in a file with world-readable permissions onto the local filesystem. This allows local users to acquire the credentials used to control the Mantis database. This updated package corrects this problem for new installations and will carefully try to update existing ones. Administrators can check the permissions of the file /etc/mantis/config_db.php to see if they are safe for their environment. The old stable distribution (etch) does not contain a mantis package. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.6+dfsg-2lenny1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.8+dfsg-2. We recommend that you upgrade your mantis package. 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 5.0 alias lenny - - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mantis/mantis_1.1.6+dfsg.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 2044082 429853b8caacc9e713b686524524418a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mantis/mantis_1.1.6+dfsg-2lenny1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1208 f77403f035efa94936500520fe273692 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mantis/mantis_1.1.6+dfsg-2lenny1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 45118 68a32687bce135f3032a184c8ebf788f Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mantis/mantis_1.1.6+dfsg-2lenny1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1744390 7a7ff3cd017be50fa3ba162ac82eb3de 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@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJKfdLzAAoJECIIoQCMVaAcuW8H/0gkWBpp7yRHdDUF2uOBOqfN migiA/tD6YKolGTPEvQ4rg3X9OehfMV8a8Jy/vtLkeNep2xHGSreinPf2nCclpI9 JOhGso4sW1VCLb1gPc0vvXW/bQ5CQVJKan2dxG4VAHi42R/t1Y0b8NzqSY0acoYF 9CD6edqlE0Xk/RABxjL0vrmox+n/3VPRHYdlu1eMdBgWPagjxvnA1RLEiAH/27w3 Ggu22Jh2WqEiftiVeUUSdGAt95/NJCDTmRTFXsNB+9pp1nk919Ys/g52F6yHCWxa dnkYGJuDQQ6VMtEYRYYXgBD9tStSvI7/KNdpdKkJzcEWKLrwgUSgjSR9MIlZPBM= =0ST9 - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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