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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