Package : wesnoth Vulnerability : directory traversal Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-5742
A vulnerability has been discovered in Battle for Wesnoth that allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files the user running the client has access to on the machine running the game client.
For the old stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.0-7.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-3.
For the stable backports distribution (etch-backports) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.8-1~bpo40+1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.8-1.
For the experimental distribution this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.12-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your wesnoth 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 at the end of this advisory:
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 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------