Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1508-1 diatheke -- insufficient input sanitising

Date Reported:

25 Feb 2008

Affected Packages:

diatheke

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 466449.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-0932.

More information:

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.

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.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.9-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your diatheke package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.7-7sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.7-7sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.7.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_m68k.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword4_1.5.7-7sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.7-7sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.7-7sarge1_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.9.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.9-2etch1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/sword_1.5.9-2etch1.dsc
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword-dev_1.5.9-2etch1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/diatheke_1.5.9-2etch1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sword/libsword6_1.5.9-2etch1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.