Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:25:10 +0100 (CET)
From: (Martin Schulze) <joey@infodrom.org>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 402-1] New minimalist package fixes remote command execution
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 402-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
November 17th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : minimalist
Vulnerability : unsanitised input
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2003-0902
A security-related problem has been discovered in minimalist, a
mailing list manager, which allows a remote attacker to execute
arbitrary commands.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2-4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your minimalist 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 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/minimalist/minimalist_2.2-4.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 867 c068640f2b93412e07368555a63d9b14
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/minimalist/minimalist_2.2-4.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 2583 2779834a5def11d42c31843cf50f7d4e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/minimalist/minimalist_2.2.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 18135 cda434d02c6a8bd5ed7220af71613d40
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/minimalist/minimalist_2.2-4_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 25608 e4b9822b1af1cf3e3d4f3dc353dd012d
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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