Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1096-1 webcalendar -- uninitialised variable

Date Reported:

13 Jun 2006

Affected Packages:

webcalendar

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2762.

More information:

A vulnerability has been discovered in webcalendar, a PHP-based multi-user calendar, that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code when register_globals is turned on.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a webcalendar package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.45-4sarge5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-1

We recommend that you upgrade your webcalendar package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge5.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge5.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge5_all.deb

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