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Debian: DSA-2001-2 Important: OpenSSL Vulnerability Due to Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2009
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An urgent vulnerability affecting xapian-omega has been identified, necessitating prompt patching across all Debian variants to maintain system integrity.
It was discovered that xapian-omega, a CGI interface for searching xapian databases, is not properly escaping user supplied input when printing exceptions

Summary

It was discovered that xapian-omega, a CGI interface for searching xapian
databases, is not properly escaping user supplied input when printing
exceptions. An attacker can use this to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks via crafted search queries resulting in an exception and steal
potentially sensitive data from web applications running on the same domain
or embedding the search engine into a website.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.9-1+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.7-3+lenny1.

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


We recommend that you upgrade your xapian-omega 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 t...

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Severity
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Package: xapian-omega
CVE ID: CVE-2009-2947

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