Debian Security Advisory

DSA-526-1 webmin -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
03 Jul 2004
Affected Packages:
webmin
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10474.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0582, CVE-2004-0583.
More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in webmin:

CAN-2004-0582: Unknown vulnerability in Webmin 1.140 allows remote attackers to bypass access control rules and gain read access to configuration information for a module.

CAN-2004-0583: The account lockout functionality in (1) Webmin 1.140 and (2) Usermin 1.070 does not parse certain character strings, which allows remote attackers to conduct a brute force attack to guess user IDs and passwords.

For the current stable distribution (woody), these problems have been fixed in version 0.94-7woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.150-1.

We recommend that you update your webmin package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin_0.94-7woody2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin_0.94-7woody2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin_0.94.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-apache_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-bind8_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-burner_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-cluster-software_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-cluster-useradmin_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-core_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-cpan_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-dhcpd_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-exports_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-fetchmail_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-heartbeat_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-inetd_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-jabber_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-lpadmin_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-mon_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-mysql_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-nis_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-postfix_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-postgresql_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-ppp_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-qmailadmin_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-quota_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-raid_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-samba_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-sendmail_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-software_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-squid_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-sshd_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-ssl_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-status_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-stunnel_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-wuftpd_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-xinetd_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin_0.94-7woody2_all.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webmin/webmin-grub_0.94-7woody2_i386.deb

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