Package : kdelibs Vulnerability : unsanitised input Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-1165 BugTraq ID : 11827 Debian Bug : 287201
Thiago Macieira discovered a vulnerability in the kioslave library, which is part of kdelibs, which allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary FTP commands via an ftp:// URL that contains an URL-encoded newline before the FTP command.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.2-13.woody.13.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your kdelibs3 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 --------------------------------