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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.64976
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1891-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'changetrack' package(s) announced via the DSA-1891-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'changetrack' package(s) announced via the DSA-1891-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Marek Grzybowski discovered that changetrack, a program to monitor changes to (configuration) files, is prone to shell command injection via metacharacters in filenames. The behaviour of the program has been adjusted to reject all filenames with metacharacters.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.3-3+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4.3-3+lenny1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your changetrack packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'changetrack' package(s) on Debian 4, Debian 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.2

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-3233
BugTraq ID: 36420
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36420
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/16/3
http://secunia.com/advisories/36756
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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