Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1056-1 webcalendar -- verbose error message
- Date Reported:
- 15 May 2006
- Affected Packages:
- webcalendar
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 366927.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2247. - More information:
-
David Maciejak noticed that webcalendar, a PHP-based multi-user calendar, returns different error messages on login attempts for an invalid password and a non-existing user, allowing remote attackers to gain information about valid usernames.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a webcalendar package.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.45-4sarge4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your webcalendar package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge4.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge4_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.