Debian Security Advisory

DSA-712-1 geneweb -- insecure file operations

Date Reported:

19 Apr 2005

Affected Packages:

geneweb

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 304405.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0391.

More information:

Tim Dijkstra discovered a problem during the upgrade of geneweb, a genealogy software with web interface. The maintainer scripts automatically converted files without checking their permissions and content, which could lead to the modification of arbitrary files.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.06-2woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.10-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your geneweb package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2woody1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2woody1_sparc.deb

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