Package name webmin
Date October 7th, 2005
Advisory ID MDKSA-2005:176
Affected versions 2006.0

Problem Description

Miniserv.pl in Webmin 1.220, when "full PAM conversations" is enabled,
allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by spoofing session
IDs via certain metacharacters (line feed or carriage return).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issues.

Updated Packages

Mandriva Linux 2006

 a848ccbf6344438775ec1304879aef4d  2006.0/RPMS/webmin-1.220-9.1.20060mdk.noarch.rpm
bd414e303f86c49a7544a9b8bb99d4a9  2006.0/SRPMS/webmin-1.220-9.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006/X86_64

 c9aa3f93679c4aa22d0d56843315bb13  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/webmin-1.220-9.1.20060mdk.noarch.rpm
bd414e303f86c49a7544a9b8bb99d4a9  x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/webmin-1.220-9.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-3042

Upgrade

To upgrade automatically, use MandrivaUpdate.


Verification

Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :

		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.

If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.