DSA-869-1 eric -- missing input sanitising

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-869-1 eric -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

21 Oct 2005

Affected Packages:

eric

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 330893.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3068.

More information:

The developers of eric, a full featured Python IDE, have fixed a bug in the processing of project files that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain an eric package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.2-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.7.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your eric package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eric/eric_3.6.2-2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eric/eric_3.6.2-2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eric/eric_3.6.2.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eric/eric_3.6.2-2_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.