Jens Steube discovered several vulnerabilities in remstats, the remote statistics system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project identifies the following problems:
CAN-2005-0387
When processing uptime data on the unix-server a temporary file is opened in an insecure fashion which could be used for a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the remstats user.
CAN-2005-0388
The remoteping service can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands due to missing input sanitising.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.00a4-8woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.13a-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your remstats packages.
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 --------------------------------
