Package name wml
Date March 26th, 2008
Advisory ID MDVSA-2008:076
Affected versions 2007.1, 2008.0

Problem Description

Two vulnerabilities were found in the Website META Language (WML)
package that allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files via
symlink attacks.

The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

Updated Packages

Mandriva Linux 2007.1

 5236531d6397a276dbbdc13b118605db  2007.1/i586/wml-2.0.11-1.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm 
 aa1c8ddcebacd87ab711f45b29297aff  2007.1/SRPMS/wml-2.0.11-1.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64

 b6cca9238f4c53141f18fa72302fe8fe  2007.1/x86_64/wml-2.0.11-1.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm 
 aa1c8ddcebacd87ab711f45b29297aff  2007.1/SRPMS/wml-2.0.11-1.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0

 e25d594701c56bd51c8e648ebeac206b  2008.0/i586/wml-2.0.11-1.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm 
 c34710838783e2d725ecf5fc99d24091  2008.0/SRPMS/wml-2.0.11-1.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64

 1e57a84169d7168bae4aff8bdc38f02e  2008.0/x86_64/wml-2.0.11-1.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm 
 c34710838783e2d725ecf5fc99d24091  2008.0/SRPMS/wml-2.0.11-1.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0665
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0666

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.