[LI] Debian: New version of mirror fixes remote exploit

[Aleph One <aleph1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI: vulnerability in Debian ``mirror'' package -- Raju

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 02:51:38 +0200
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@xxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <199910180051.CAA16782@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: debian-security-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of mirror fixes remote exploit

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Debian Security Advisory                             security@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
October 18, 1999
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We have received reports that the version of mirror as distributed in
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 could be remotely exploited. When mirroring a
remote site the remote site could use filename-constructions like " .."
that would case mirror to work one level above the target directory for
the mirrored files.

This has been fixed in mirror version 2.9-2.1 .

We recommend you upgrade your mirror 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
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  This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
  680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/mirror_2.9-2.1.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 2340c6a18b8b69c5122ef78e50663824
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/mirror_2.9-2.1.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 2890c6ed6c60e97299c7fcd3a56b5b36
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/mirror_2.9.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 49ebf2fc732322aff2a8297f89bb9df3

  Architecture indendent archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-all/mirror_2.9-2.1_all.deb
      MD5 checksum: d10e76994611915ba79aeee838fada7c

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