Debian: lxr filename sanitizing vulnerability
Summary
Upstream developers of lxr, a general hypertext cross-referencing
tool, have been alerted of a vulnerability that allows a remote
attacker to read arbitrary files on the host system as user www-data.
This could disclose local files that were not meant to be shared with
the public.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 0.3-3.
The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected since it does not
contain an lxr package.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been
fixed in version 0.3-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your lxr package.
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
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