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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.7-7sarge1.diff.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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.9-2etch1.diff.gz
- 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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.