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Debian Advisory DSA-2646-1: Critical Typo3 SQL Injection Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2013
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A recent Typo3 security patch improves safeguards against weaknesses in user input processing, promoting enhanced security for PHP-based content management systems.
Typo3, a PHP-based content management system, was found vulnerable to several vulnerabilities

Summary

CVE-2013-1842

Helmut Hummel and Markus Opahle discovered that the Extbase database layer
was not correctly sanitizing user input when using the Query object model.
This can lead to SQL injection by a malicious user inputing crafted
relation values.

CVE-2013-1843

Missing user input validation in the access tracking mechanism could lead
to arbitrary URL redirection.
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Note: the fix will break already published links. Upstream advisory on
https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2013-001
has more information on how to mitigate that.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.3.9+dfsg1-1+squeeze8.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.5.19+dfsg1-5.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.5.19+dfsg1-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your typo3-src packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates...

Read the Full Advisory

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Package: typo3-src
CVE ID: CVE-2013-1842 CVE-2013-1843

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