Debian Security Advisory

DSA-402-1 minimalist -- unsanitised input

Date Reported:

17 Nov 2003

Affected Packages:

minimalist

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9049.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0902.

More information:

A security-related problem has been discovered in minimalist, a mailing list manager, which allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your minimalist package.

Fixed in:

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/minimalist/minimalist_2.2-4.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/minimalist/minimalist_2.2-4.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/minimalist/minimalist_2.2.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/minimalist/minimalist_2.2-4_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.