Debian: DSA-1778-1: New mahara packages fix cross-site scripting
Summary
It was discovered that mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and
resume builder, is prone to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks because
of missing input sanitization of the introduction text field in user
profiles and any text field in a user view.
The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain mahara.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.4-4+lenny2.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mahara packages.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
Debian (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1303 934fdf17abf7221e30fe68c925377126
Size/MD5 checksum: 39307 3193a6e1483f1375430cc236230bc9cc
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1637064 9fc42b011a826509edc1fccdb9bc149e
Size/MD5 checksum: 7830 30c258196ccbdddc6c4f25e1534ba96e
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show