[SECURITY] [DSA 1949-1] New php-net-ping packages fix arbitrary code execution

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1949-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Raphael Geissert
December 12, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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Package : php-net-ping
Vulnerability : programming error
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CVE-2009-4024

It was discovered that php-net-ping, a PHP PEAR module to execute ping
independently of the Operating System, performs insufficient input
sanitising, which might be used to inject arguments (no CVE yet) or
execute arbitrary commands (CVE-2009-4024) on a system that uses
php-net-ping.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.2-1+lenny1.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.2-1+etch1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed
soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.2-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your php-net-ping packages.

Upgrade instructions

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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 4.0 alias etch

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Debian (oldstable)

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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2-1+etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3270 b53c3677d3d7d44c472cd395d710748d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 9309 5bfd8d695c35d30d353b51134ad8ca35
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2-1+etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 607 e7e1d01e802bc6108c1faea148f3e25a

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2-1+etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 13924 4ef13559e1412c0811c33f36ddaa6f23

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny

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Debian (stable)

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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 9309 5bfd8d695c35d30d353b51134ad8ca35
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2-1+lenny1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1015 9c912fc0bbfcd10c8ab71f52f320ba48
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2-1+lenny1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3269 0097b6d5920a4cf32439cd9bf6e95bac

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2-1+lenny1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 13920 d0492ed51494045583f0fb99fc75d753

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;