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Debian DSA-1508-1 : diatheke - insufficient input sanitising

high Nessus Plugin ID 31169

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Dan Dennison discovered that Diatheke, a CGI program to make a bible website, performs insufficient sanitising of a parameter, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands as the web server user.

Solution

Upgrade the diatheke package.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.7-7sarge1.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.9-2etch1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466449

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1508

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 31169

File Name: debian_DSA-1508.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/26/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:diatheke, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0932

CWE: 20

DSA: 1508