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Debian Lenny DSA-1937-1 Critical: Gforge Cross-Site Scripting Issue

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Calendar Grey November 21, 2009
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Debian Security Announcement DSA-1937-2 reports a critical remote code execution flaw in xyzlib alongside extensive patching instructions.
It was discovered that gforge, collaborative development tool, is prone to a cross-site scripting attack via the helpname parameter

Summary

It was discovered that gforge, collaborative development tool, is prone
to a cross-site scripting attack via the helpname parameter. Beside
fixing this issue, the update also introduces some additional input
sanitising. However, there are no known attack vectors.


For the stable distribution (lenny), these problem have been fixed in
version 4.7~rc2-7lenny2.

The oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.5.14-22etch12.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.1-3.


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 internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by ...

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Package: gforge
CVE ID: CVE-2009-3303

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