Debian Security Advisory
DSA-402-1 minimalist -- unsanitised input
- Date Reported:
- 17 Nov 2003
- Affected Packages:
- minimalist
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9049.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0902. - More information:
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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.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/minimalist/minimalist_2.2-4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/minimalist/minimalist_2.2-4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/minimalist/minimalist_2.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/minimalist/minimalist_2.2-4.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/minimalist/minimalist_2.2-4_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.