Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1056-1 webcalendar -- verbose error message

Date Reported:

15 May 2006

Affected Packages:

webcalendar

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 366927.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2247.

More information:

David Maciejak noticed that webcalendar, a PHP-based multi-user calendar, returns different error messages on login attempts for an invalid password and a non-existing user, allowing remote attackers to gain information about valid usernames.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a webcalendar package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.45-4sarge4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your webcalendar package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge4.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge4.diff.gz; 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_0.9.45-4sarge4_all.deb

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