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Debian: DSA-5001-1 Moderate: GForge Vulnerability in Cross Site Scripting

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Calendar Grey January 26, 2008
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Debian's security team warns of a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in GForge, risking user sessions. Update GForge to safeguard against XSS threats
José Ramón Palanco discovered th a cross site scripting vulnerability in GForge, a collaborative development tool, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTM...

Summary


The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.6.99+svn6347-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gforge package.

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 adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Size/MD5 checksum: 2161141 e85f82eff84ee073f80a2a52dd32c8a5
Size/MD5 checksum: 950 5416e7f128db22b483573e7e2cf0b519
Size/MD5 checksum: 197440 8a12d00cf17dfdd7494985c4f8f29911

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 88336 ef9fd62cd1104bb8a...

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