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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2008.0118 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux][Debian] New python-cherrypy packages fix denial of service 6 February 2008 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: python-cherrypy Publisher: Debian Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Windows Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Impact: Delete Arbitrary Files Denial of Service Access: Remote/Unauthenticated CVE Names: CVE-2008-0252 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1481 Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators running cherrypy 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-1481-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff February 05, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : python-cherrypy Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-0252 It was discovered that a directory traversal vulnerability in CherryPy, a pythonic, object-oriented web development framework may lead to denial of service by deleting files through malicious session IDs in cookies. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.1-3etch1. The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain python-cherrypy. We recommend that you upgrade your python-cherrypy packages. 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 4.0 (stable) - - ------------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cherrypy/python-cherrypy_2.2.1-3etch1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 5389 f7773f8a66037427df7c33be2dfe7184 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cherrypy/python-cherrypy_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 219932 14bf17b0706bc480342cb8fcfaed74cd http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cherrypy/python-cherrypy_2.2.1-3etch1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 824 f425e025b9410c49cd8cd5564aec460a Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cherrypy/python-cherrypy_2.2.1-3etch1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 220252 b48f9d3a74b1823de85c45c7a30a63c9 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 v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHqJpGXm3vHE4uyloRAg33AJ9pZlSwwQ/6ZxkXcbEcad9RpXnpfQCgoEhT hPAtlotdtMGzKVdt+CmKQsQ= =ZFEG - -----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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