Debian Security Advisory
DSA-264-1 lxr -- missing filename sanitizing
- Date Reported:
- 19 Mar 2003
- Affected Packages:
- lxr
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0156.
- More information:
-
Upstream developers of lxr, a general hypertext cross-referencing tool, have been alerted of a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to read arbitrary files on the host system as user www-data. This could disclose local files that were not meant to be shared with the public.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3-3.
The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected since it does not contain an lxr package.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your lxr package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lxr/lxr_0.3-3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.