Debian alert: New version of cvsweb released

Posted by dave on Jul 15, 2000 10:40 PM EDT
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The versions of cvsweb distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (aka slink) as well as in the frozen (potato) and unstable (woody) distributions, are vulnerable to a remote shell exploit. An attacker with write access to the cvs repository can execute arbitrary code on the server, as the www-data user.

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Debian Security Advisory                             security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
July 16, 2000
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Package: cvsweb
Vulnerability type: remote shell
Debian-specific: no

The versions of cvsweb distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (aka slink) as
well as in the frozen (potato) and unstable (woody) distributions, are
vulnerable to a remote shell exploit. An attacker with write access to the
cvs repository can execute arbitrary code on the server, as the www-data
user.

The vulnerability is fixed in version 109 of cvsweb for the current stable
release (Debian 2.1), in version 1.79-3potato1 for the frozen distribution,
and in version 1.86-1 for the unstable distribution.

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

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
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  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/cvsweb_109.dsc
      MD5 checksum: b1810728310882fb72078674521ee369
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/cvsweb_109.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 4c42ec3ba7248fc2499cdfaa6ae6b702

  Architecture indendent archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-all/cvsweb_109_all.deb
      MD5 checksum: fe9144254ab224923ac627aef7ec2167

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Please note that potato has not been released yet.

  Source archives:
    http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source/devel/cvsweb_1.79-3potato1.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 9dcb469f5da602cd53e41258febba244
    http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source/devel/cvsweb_1.79-3potato1.dsc
      MD5 checksum: b4aceba93a6721486f8ca42f230c7271
    http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source/devel/cvsweb_1.79.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: c755a4c75d4c8844274458ae5953823b

  Binary package for all architectures:
    http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-all/devel/cvsweb_1.79-3potato1.deb
      MD5 checksum: 1b89d61312925ee7934108c4f638d912

Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias woody
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  Please note that woody has not been released yet.

  Source archives:
    http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/source/devel/cvsweb_1.86-1.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: e3fc2117d689746eaa2cf4c8a701aa4e 
    http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/source/devel/cvsweb_1.86-1.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 0b2b9bf0b1fe39552da03698ba37bc36
    http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/source/devel/cvsweb_1.86.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: ea93ed274ec6fbd49cec57c759747cb7

  Binary package for all architectures:
    http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-all/devel/cvsweb_1.86-1.deb
      MD5 checksum: a99c605e0d77f1c56a82c95a3dc6d83f



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