It was discovered that php-net-ping, a PHP PEAR module to execute ping independently of the Operating System, performs insufficient input sanitising, which might be used to inject arguments (no CVE yet) or execute arbitrary commands (CVE-2009-4024) on a system that uses php-net-ping. For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-1+etch1. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-1+lenny1. For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-1.1. We recommend that you upgrade your php-net-ping packages.
It was discovered that php-net-ping, a PHP PEAR module to execute ping independently of the Operating System, performs insufficient input sanitising, which might be used to inject arguments (no CVE yet) or execute arbitrary commands (CVE-2009-4024) on a system that uses php-net-ping.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-1+etch4.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-1+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your php-net-ping packages.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.