From debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Sun Jun 29 20:47:46 2003 From: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Resent-From: list@murphy.debian.org (SmartList) To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 21:47:50 -0400 Reply-To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Subject: [Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA-335-1] New mantis packages fix insecure file permissions -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 335-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman June 28th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : mantis Vulnerability : incorrect permissions Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: yes mantis, a PHP/MySQL web based bug tracking system, stores the password used to access its database in a configuration file which is world-readable. This could allow a local attacker to read the password and gain read/write access to the database. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17.1-3. For the old stable distribution (potato) does not contain a mantis package. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version 0.17.5-6. We recommend that you update your mantis package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- 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 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mantis/mantis_0.17.1-3.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 577 51599356a83dc1b315fc7e6f21d338ff http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mantis/mantis_0.17.1-3.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 15264 4a65805f85b2e70ab61f61446ab29336 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mantis/mantis_0.17.1.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 220458 d8bac093eaf31ef5812e714db5c07f82 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mantis/mantis_0.17.1-3_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 250314 e47ccc4eec1d97677a7fa350565ed98a You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE+/kU+ArxCt0PiXR4RApOrAJibHCVTm2jrCqhXBOoV4w4XFyYqAKDgvIpW lQK3WrbIeQUyAdBzCTzBxA== =sxoA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html