[SECURITY] [DSA 471-1] New interchange packages fix information leak
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 471-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
April 2nd, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : interchange
Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2004-0374
A vulnerability was discovered recently in Interchange, an e-commerce
and general HTTP database display system. This vulnerability can be
exploited by an attacker to expose the content of arbitrary variables.
An attacker may learn SQL access information for your Interchange
application and use this information to read and manipulate sensitive
data.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.0.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your interchange package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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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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>
