Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1739-1 mldonkey -- path traversal

Date Reported:
13 Mar 2009
Affected Packages:
mldonkey
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 516829.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0753.
More information:

It has been discovered that mldonkey, a client for several P2P networks, allows attackers to download arbitrary files using crafted requests to the HTTP console.

The old stable distribution (etch) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.9.5-2+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your mldonkey packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey_2.9.5-2+lenny1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey_2.9.5.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey_2.9.5-2+lenny1.diff.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_arm.deb
ARM EABI:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_armel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_armel.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-server_2.9.5-2+lenny1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mldonkey/mldonkey-gui_2.9.5-2+lenny1_sparc.deb

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