Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 22:16:31 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@soil.nl>
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/
Wichert Akkerman
December 9, 1999
Package : htdig
Vulnerability type: remote exploit
Debian-specific : no
The version of htdig that was shipped in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
has a problem with calling external programs to handle non-HTML
documents: it calls the external program with the document as a
parameter, but does not check for shell escapes. This can be
exploited by creating files with filenames that include shell
escapes to run arbitraty commands on the machine that runs
htdig.
This has been fixed in version 3.1.2-4slink6. We recommend you
upgrade your htdig package immediately.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
This version of Debian was released only for Intel ia32, the
Motorola 680×0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/htdig_3.1.2-4slink6.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 9151d7e15d7a2759958c09e6c21f28de
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/htdig_3.1.2-4slink6.dsc
MD5 checksum: fc05d22813afaa9fce10e97a5437ed69
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/htdig_3.1.2.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: ddd0305d420e2d6025694d4e1448d5f7
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/htdig_3.1.2-4slink6_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 1f816b0af2dd5919524d26be2017ec62
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/htdig_3.1.2-4slink6_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: da77c99388d3d9d09afecb2c9f345d58
Motorola 680×0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/htdig_3.1.2-4slink6_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 48986e8f5323db7b899c6341b87c3d4d
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/htdig_3.1.2-4slink6_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: fcd3181ad76a72e82db2f769d88ff18c
These files will be moved into
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/
soon.
For not yet released architectures please refer to the
appropriate directory
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/
.
For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable updates
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org