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Debian: DSA-1818-1 Critical: Gforge SQL Injection And XSS

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2009
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Ubuntu releases a bulletin regarding gforge weaknesses, addressing SQL injection and XSS threats to improve safety.
Laurent Almeras and Guillaume Smet have discovered a possible SQL injection vulnerability and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in gforge, a collaborative development tool

Summary

Laurent Almeras and Guillaume Smet have discovered a possible SQL
injection vulnerability and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in
gforge, a collaborative development tool. Due to insufficient input
sanitising, it was possible to inject arbitrary SQL statements and use
several parameters to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problem have been fixed in
version 4.7~rc2-7lenny1.

The oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.5.14-22etch11.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), these problems will be fixed
soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.7.3-2.


We recommend that you upgrade your gforge packages.


Upgrade instructions
- --------------------

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 inte...

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Package: gforge
CVE IDs: CVE ids pending

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