Debian alert: New Light package fixes arbitrary script execution

Posted by dave on Aug 22, 2002 12:34 PM EDT
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All versions of the EPIC script Light prior to 2.7.30p5 (on the 2.7 branch) and prior to 2.8pre10 (on the 2.8 branch) running on any platform are vulnerable to a remotely-exploitable bug, which can lead to nearly arbitrary code execution.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 156-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
August 22th, 2002                       http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : epic4-script-light
Vulnerability  : arbitrary script execution
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no

All versions of the EPIC script Light prior to 2.7.30p5 (on the 2.7
branch) and prior to 2.8pre10 (on the 2.8 branch) running on any
platform are vulnerable to a remotely-exploitable bug, which can lead
to nearly arbitrary code execution.

This problem has been fixed in version 2.7.30p5-1.1 for the current
stable distribution (woody) and in version 2.7.30p5-2 for the unstable
distribution (sid).  The old stable distribution (potato) is not
affected, since it doesn't contain the Light package.

We recommend that you upgrade your epic4-script-light package and
restart your IRC client.

wget url
	will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4-script-light/epic4-script-light_2.7.30p5-1.1.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      632 053d1358c5d5af80a00a16a417ace948
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4-script-light/epic4-script-light_2.7.30p5-1.1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:     6050 b1fc07a846f21dfff190fa93fb09922d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4-script-light/epic4-script-light_2.7.30p5.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    64391 1321bb1c6e31168fbe190df0c3ef8234

  Architecture independent components:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4-script-light/epic4-script-light_2.7.30p5-1.1_all.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    72200 3b0d251f9f7270e76fa094e91a2278f9


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>

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