Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1739-1 mldonkey -- path traversal

Date Reported:

13 Mar 2009

Affected Packages:

mldonkey

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 516829.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0753.

More information:

It has been discovered that mldonkey, a client for several P2P networks, allows attackers to download arbitrary files using crafted requests to the HTTP console.

The old stable distribution (etch) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.9.5-2+lenny1.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your mldonkey packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey_2.9.5-2+lenny1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey_2.9.5.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey_2.9.5-2+lenny1.diff.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_arm.deb
ARM EABI:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_armel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_armel.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_sparc.deb

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