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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2006.0918 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian]
New enemies-of-carlotta package fix missing sanity checks
18 December 2006
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: enemies-of-carlotta
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
Access: Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names: CVE-2006-5875
Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1236
http://liw.iki.fi/lists/eoc@liw.iki.fi/msg00366.html
Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on
platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators
running enemies-of-carlotta check for an updated version of the
software for their operating system.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1236-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp
December 13, 2006
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Package : enemies-of-carlotta
Vulnerability : missing sanity checks
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2006-5875
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho discovered that enemies-of-carlotta, a simple
manager for mailing lists, does not properly sanitise email addresses
before passing them through to the system shell.
For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version
1.0.3-1sarge1
We recommend that you upgrade your enemies-of-carlotta 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 3.1 (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enemies-of-carlotta/enemies-of-carlotta_1.0.3.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 50970 c128776396562ef1c678e438422d11fb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enemies-of-carlotta/enemies-of-carlotta_1.0.3-1sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 615 15c19c6a0ba8b3350f7ada9074713d12
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enemies-of-carlotta/enemies-of-carlotta_1.0.3-1sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3587 c5e36788f3e1375c1f97533f1692de4a
Architecture independent packages:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enemies-of-carlotta/enemies-of-carlotta_1.0.3-1sarge1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 42722 d78136bff713315256626eec51521c83
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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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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