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Debian: DSA-1829-1 Critical: Sork-Passwd-H3 Remote Cross-Site Scripting

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2009
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Debian has issued a warning regarding the update of sork-passwd-h3, highlighting vulnerabilities linked to cross-site scripting present in earlier versions. Discover additional details.
It was discovered that sork-passwd-h3, a Horde3 module for users to change their password, is prone to a cross-site scripting attack via the backend parameter

Summary

It was discovered that sork-passwd-h3, a Horde3 module for users to
change their password, is prone to a cross-site scripting attack via the
backend parameter.


For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0-2+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0-2+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1-1.1.


We recommend that you upgrade your sork-passwd-h3 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.


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Package: sork-passwd-h3
CVE ID: CVE-2009-2360

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