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Debian: DSA 355-1 Critical: Gallery Cross-Site Scripting Exploit

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Calendar Grey July 31, 2003
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Debian exposes critical Gallery XSS flaw allowing malicious Javascript execution; update recommended.
Larry Nguyen discovered a cross site scripting vulnerability in gallery,a web-based photo album written in php.

Summary

Larry Nguyen discovered a cross site scripting vulnerability in gallery,
a web-based photo album written in php. This security flaw can allow a
malicious user to craft a URL that executes Javascript code on your
website.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed
in version 1.25-8woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.4-3.

We recommend that you update your gallery package.

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.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

Source archives:


Size/MD5 checksum: 573 99fd36bbfc4accdb0e492a...

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Package: gallery

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