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Debian: DSA-2056-1 Critical: Zonecheck Remote Cross-Site Scripting

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Calendar Grey June 6, 2010
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Uncover the security bulletin DSA-2056-1 for Debian which tackles cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in zonecheck.
It was discovered that in zonecheck, a tool to check DNS configurations, the CGI does not perform sufficient sanitation of user input; an attacker can take advantage of this and pa...

Summary

It was discovered that in zonecheck, a tool to check DNS configurations,
the CGI does not perform sufficient sanitation of user input; an
attacker can take advantage of this and pass script code in order to
perform cross-site scripting attacks.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.4-13lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.1-1.

For the testing distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your zonecheck 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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