Debian Security Advisory

DSA-223-1 geneweb -- information exposure

Date Reported:
07 Jan 2003
Affected Packages:
geneweb
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 6549.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-1390.
More information:

A security issue has been discovered by Daniel de Rauglaudre, upstream author of geneweb, a genealogical software with web interface. It runs as a daemon on port 2317 by default. Paths are not properly sanitized, so a carefully crafted URL lead geneweb to read and display arbitrary files of the system it runs on.

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

The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.09-1.

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_4.06-2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2.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_4.06-2_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/geneweb_4.06-2_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/geneweb/gwtp_4.06-2_sparc.deb

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