This is _not_ a grave severity issue in the debian package, specifically
because configure (as mentioned in the advisory) is locked down using
apache to
   1 localhost
   2 an admin user that is created by the installer.

Sven

Brad Krane wrote:
> Package: twiki
> Version: 1:4.0.5-9.1
> Severity: grave
> Tags: security
> Justification: user security hole
> 
> 
> TWiki command execution vulnerability found in current version. US-CERT 
> Vulnerability Note: 
> http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/362012 and TWiki Security Alert: 
> http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2008-3195
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 4.0
>   APT prefers oldstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
> Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> 
> Versions of packages twiki depends on:
> ii  apache-common           1.3.34-4.1+etch1 support files for all Apache 
> webse
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.11etch2      Debian configuration management 
> sy
> ii  libalgorithm-diff-perl  1.19.01-2        a perl library for finding 
> Longest
> ii  libcgi-session-perl     4.14-1           Persistent session data in CGI 
> app
> ii  libdigest-sha1-perl     2.11-1           NIST SHA-1 message digest 
> algorith
> ii  liberror-perl           0.15-8           Perl module for error/exception 
> ha
> ii  libhtml-parser-perl     3.55-1           A collection of modules that 
> parse
> ii  liblocale-maketext-lexi 0.62-1           Lexicon-handling backends for 
> "Loc
> ii  libtext-diff-perl       0.35-2           Perform diffs on files and 
> record 
> ii  liburi-perl             1.35-2           Manipulates and accesses URI 
> strin
> ii  perl [libmime-base64-pe 5.8.8-7etch3     Larry Wall's Practical 
> Extraction 
> ii  perl-modules [libnet-pe 5.8.8-7etch3     Core Perl modules
> ii  rcs                     5.7-18           The GNU Revision Control System
> 
> twiki recommends no packages.
> 
> -- debconf information excluded
> 

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