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Debian: DSA-1459-1 Moderate: Gforge SQL Injection Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2008
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A critical security alert about the gforge package update that addresses SQL injection vulnerabilities. Please examine this document for essential updates and risk management strategies
It was discovered that Gforge, a collaborative development tool, did not properly sanitise some CGI parameters, allowing SQL injection in scripts related to RSS exports.

Summary


For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1-31sarge5.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.6.99+svn6330-1.

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 adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian 3.1 (oldstable)
- ----------------------Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 298148 fd78915a83bd2c0ebf907adb10369846
Size/MD5 checksum: 1409879 c723b3a9ef...

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