Tim Dijkstra discovered a problem during the upgrade of geneweb, a genealogy software with web interface. The maintainer scripts automatically converted files without checking their permissions and content, which could lead to the modification of arbitrary files.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.06-2woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.10-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your geneweb package.
Upgrade Instructions --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody --------------------------------