Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4415-1 passenger -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 24 Mar 2019
- Affected Packages:
- passenger
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 884463.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-16355. - More information:
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An arbitrary file read vulnerability was discovered in passenger, a web application server. A local user allowed to deploy an application to passenger, can take advantage of this flaw by creating a symlink from the REVISION file to an arbitrary file on the system and have its content displayed through passenger-status.
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.0.30-1+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your passenger packages.
For the detailed security status of passenger please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/passenger