Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1508-1 diatheke -- insufficient input sanitising

Date Reported:
25 Feb 2008
Affected Packages:
diatheke
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 466449.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-0932.
More information:

Dan Dennison discovered that Diatheke, a CGI program to make a bible website, performs insufficient sanitising of a parameter, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands as the web server user.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.7-7sarge1.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.9-2etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.9-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your diatheke package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.7-7sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.7-7sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.7.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_m68k.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.9.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.9-2etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.9-2etch1.dsc
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_sparc.deb

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