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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2178-1 awl -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

18 Apr 2020

Affected Packages:

awl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 956650.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-11728, CVE-2020-11729.

More information:

Following CVEs were reported against the awl source package:

• CVE-2020-11728

  An issue was discovered in DAViCal Andrew's Web Libraries (AWL) through 0.60. Session management does not use a sufficiently hard-to-guess session key. Anyone who can guess the microsecond time (and the incrementing session_id) can impersonate a session.

• CVE-2020-11729

  An issue was discovered in DAViCal Andrew's Web Libraries (AWL) through 0.60. Long-term session cookies, uses to provide long-term session continuity, are not generated securely, enabling a brute-force attack that may be successful.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 0.55-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your awl packages.

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