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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2005.0867 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 879-1 New gallery packages fix privilege escalation 3 November 2005 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: gallery Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 UNIX variants Impact: Inappropriate Access Access: Existing Account CVE Names: CVE-2005-2596 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-879 Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators running gallery check for an updated version of the software for their operating system. - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 879-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze November 2nd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : gallery Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-2596 A bug in gallery has been discoverd that grants all registrated postnuke users full access to the gallery. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5-1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5-2. We recommend that you upgrade your gallery 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 You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gallery/gallery_1.5-1sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 589 66094a4fb1cc5429e8fc7815aa0f2c32 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gallery/gallery_1.5-1sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 15051 2239879af55f3de1abb91c036bf9a7a3 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gallery/gallery_1.5.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 6654533 7d610b59e7bf9edbbfa0abb38e041754 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gallery/gallery_1.5-1sarge1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 6570176 d68b5e9c23c40acb4457882ee2b8a1a8 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDaFTZW5ql+IAeqTIRAipjAJ9m/hQ2WiU+cV8mPmCCgZKhgzYEgACeLNoJ 9okdzwzOyfHnuAysIlHIUiM= =MQEH - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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