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Debian: DSA-1429-1 Moderate: Htdig Cross Site Scripting Threat

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Calendar Grey December 11, 2007
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Julia Hartman identified a vulnerability in the XYZ application that permits SQL injection, potentially leading to unauthorized data access. Immediate patch advised.
Michael Skibbe discovered that htdig, a WWW search system for an intranet or small internet, did not adequately quote values submitted to the search script, allowing remote attac...
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Summary


For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem was not present.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version
1:3.2.0b6-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your htdig 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: 616 cd4c8534f4615e145331c49ce61d6dc8
Size/MD5 checksum: 3104936 8a6952f5b97e305dbb7489045bad220f
Size/MD5 checksum: 86277 c604a5e5b383b92701751cc59dc42f64

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 528278 8ef47406cfd1e8e443a1...

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