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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1626-1 (httrack)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to httrack announced via advisory DSA 1626-1.

Insight

Insight

Joan Calvet discovered that httrack, a utility to create local copies of websites, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow potentially allowing to execute arbitrary code when passed excessively long URLs. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.40.4-3.1+etch1. For the testing (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.42.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your httrack package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201626-1

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