Debian Security Advisory
DSA-712-1 geneweb -- insecure file operations
- Date Reported:
- 19 Apr 2005
- Affected Packages:
- geneweb
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 304405.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0391. - More information:
-
Tim Dijkstra discovered a problem during the upgrade of geneweb, a genealogy software with web interface. The maintainer scripts automatically converted files without checking their permissions and content, which could lead to the modification of arbitrary files.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.06-2woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.10-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your geneweb package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.