Debian Security Advisory

DSA-799-1 webcalendar -- remote code execution

Date Reported:

02 Sep 2005

Affected Packages:

webcalendar

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

No other external database security references currently available.

More information:

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge2_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.