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Package name webmin
Date September 22nd, 2006
Advisory ID MDKSA-2006:170
Affected versions CS3.0, 2006.0, CS4.0

Problem Description

Webmin before 1.296 and Usermin before 1.226 does not properly handle a
URL with a null ("%00") character, which allows remote attackers to
conduct cross-site scripting (XSS), read CGI program source code, list
directories, and possibly execute programs.

Updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Updated Packages

Corporate Server 3.0

 07c54213a244025ddee9a2fe99ad7ede  corporate/3.0/i586/webmin-1.121-4.7.C30mdk.noarch.rpm 
 cb2e9906f2470e2c64c442ed5b07d08b  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/webmin-1.121-4.7.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 3.0/X86_64

 51eda948ce432904b65f9344800c259c  corporate/3.0/x86_64/webmin-1.121-4.7.C30mdk.noarch.rpm 
 cb2e9906f2470e2c64c442ed5b07d08b  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/webmin-1.121-4.7.C30mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006

 53995b233a220e3a374461a42c131e02  2006.0/i586/webmin-1.220-9.5.20060mdk.noarch.rpm 
 0d97837d940729f9d617f8e50d516778  2006.0/SRPMS/webmin-1.220-9.5.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006/X86_64

 b33be5a839ed88eabe346bc24986e388  2006.0/x86_64/webmin-1.220-9.5.20060mdk.noarch.rpm 
 0d97837d940729f9d617f8e50d516778  2006.0/SRPMS/webmin-1.220-9.5.20060mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 4.0

 b6672f839e69bd3d564ca2c34169df31  corporate/4.0/i586/webmin-1.220-9.7.20060mlcs4.noarch.rpm 
 7149a9c0fd1fa15595d63baf0c8130f6  corporate/4.0/SRPMS/webmin-1.220-9.7.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

Corporate Server 4.0/X86_64

 9789548c068ba27a97364316a7714b4d  corporate/4.0/x86_64/webmin-1.220-9.7.20060mlcs4.noarch.rpm 
 7149a9c0fd1fa15595d63baf0c8130f6  corporate/4.0/SRPMS/webmin-1.220-9.7.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4542

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.