Debian Security Advisory

DSA-523-1 www-sql -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

19 Jun 2004

Affected Packages:

www-sql

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10577.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0455.

More information:

Ulf Härnhammar discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in www-sql, a CGI program which enables the creation of dynamic web pages by embedding SQL statements in HTML. By exploiting this vulnerability, a local user could cause the execution of arbitrary code by creating a web page and processing it with www-sql.

For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.7-17woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your www-sql package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-sql_0.5.7-17woody1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-sql_0.5.7-17woody1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-sql_0.5.7.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-mysql_0.5.7-17woody1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-pgsql_0.5.7-17woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-mysql_0.5.7-17woody1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-pgsql_0.5.7-17woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-mysql_0.5.7-17woody1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-pgsql_0.5.7-17woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-mysql_0.5.7-17woody1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-pgsql_0.5.7-17woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-mysql_0.5.7-17woody1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-pgsql_0.5.7-17woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-mysql_0.5.7-17woody1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-pgsql_0.5.7-17woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-mysql_0.5.7-17woody1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-pgsql_0.5.7-17woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-mysql_0.5.7-17woody1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-pgsql_0.5.7-17woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-mysql_0.5.7-17woody1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-pgsql_0.5.7-17woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-mysql_0.5.7-17woody1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-pgsql_0.5.7-17woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-mysql_0.5.7-17woody1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/www-sql/www-pgsql_0.5.7-17woody1_sparc.deb

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