Bug#47708: Serious security holes result from failure to quote variables

1999-10-18 Thread Mike Bilow
Package: cgi-scripts Version: 1.0.9 Severity: grave Several example scripts in the 'cgi-scripts' package pass information supplied by the remote user via unquoted strings. The failure to quote these strings introduces a severe potential vulnerability. Although some web servers may provide some f

Bug#47709: Some scripts way, way out of date

1999-10-18 Thread Mike Bilow
Package: cgi-scripts Version: 1.0.9 Severity: Normal My opinion, for what it may be worth, is that the example programs in 'cgi-scripts' are in several cases so far out of date that they represent what are considered bad practice in modern CGI technique. For example, the 'mailto.pl' script dating

Bug#47708: 'mailto.pl' passes unquoted addres to 'sendmail'

1999-10-18 Thread Mike Bilow
Another related issue worth noting is that the 'mailto.pl' script invokes 'sendmail' with the address provided unquoted on the command line. I am sure there are more of these; it is just a matter of wading through them. -- Mike

Re: Multiple NMU requests

1999-10-18 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 10:20:36AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > This is a problem of update-alternatives and your personal > configuration. It seems like you put /usr/share/man on an other No, only update-alternatives. > partition then /usr/man and so it fails to create the symlink. Would you

Offering gnome-core

1999-10-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Followup in debian-devel, please respect it ] Hi people, i've adopted gnome-core some weeks ago, i've cleaned and checked most of the bugs with the help of Christian Marillat. But it's a big package (in fact many little packages) and you always get new bug reports. I'd like that my successor

Re: Multiple NMU requests

1999-10-18 Thread Christian Kurz
On 99-10-18 Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 10:20:36AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > > This is a problem of update-alternatives and your personal > > configuration. It seems like you put /usr/share/man on an other > No, only update-alternatives. Well, it didn't exactly chec