Summary
The remote host is missing an update to diatheke
announced via advisory DSA 1508-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201508-1
Insight
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 stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.9-2etch1.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.7-7sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.9-8.
We recommend that you upgrade your diatheke package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-0932 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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