Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. This issue is caused by an error in htdig. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-4038

Affected Products

Fedora Core 6

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

4c01f361c75b43854acd481db0a1ae83104809c3 SRPMS/htdig-3.2.0b6-9.fc6.src.rpm
4c01f361c75b43854acd481db0a1ae83104809c3 noarch/htdig-3.2.0b6-9.fc6.src.rpm
0e02226549bdd2f4bfd5e17cf8277def82bda71d ppc/htdig-web-3.2.0b6-9.fc6.ppc.rpm
5f7d01a19e00d65a5b8dd445939733a2a36df4e5 ppc/debug/htdig-debuginfo-3.2.0b6-9.fc6.ppc.rpm
177827abb753e2b788c550a43b19506201a9d5d7 ppc/htdig-3.2.0b6-9.fc6.ppc.rpm
b412abb0a334987d8cace2278bdc789001821591 x86_64/htdig-web-3.2.0b6-9.fc6.x86_64.rpm
905f4ce2b3e5b2af2ea1a8c9cceee5a0d3071d1c x86_64/debug/htdig-debuginfo-3.2.0b6-9.fc6.x86_64.rpm
3d2d55ae4d4dc9f12869bddd05af1d933bb9c881 x86_64/htdig-3.2.0b6-9.fc6.x86_64.rpm
b78ae5f51ba6feb5b7dddf7f771df938b19df8a6 i386/debug/htdig-debuginfo-3.2.0b6-9.fc6.i386.rpm
8f4f5e4d7265113443692f260ec0111d8e53e3cc i386/htdig-web-3.2.0b6-9.fc6.i386.rpm
3fd2e4055f6190947217d602af36dc33c56b3e4d i386/htdig-3.2.0b6-9.fc6.i386.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4078
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00116.html

ChangeLog

2007-12-04 : Initial release

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