Debian: New ikiwiki packages fix cross-site scripting
March 17, 2008
Josh Triplett discovered that ikiwiki did not block Javascript in
URLs, leading to cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-0808,
CVE-2008-0809).
Summary
Severity
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1523-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer
March 17, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------Package : ikiwiki
Vulnerability : cross-site scripting
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-0808 CVE-2008-0809
Josh Triplett discovered that ikiwiki did not block Javascript in
URLs, leading to cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-0808,
CVE-2008-0809).
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.33.4.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.31.1.
The old stable distribution (sarge) did not contain an ikiwiki package.
We recommend that you upgrade your ikiwiki 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
- -------------------------------Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1015 2e29116078a22cf014f69352c3060ca7
Size/MD5 checksum: 227057 e9004c649fd2868f98db48f9d1a88cb5
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 273414 8b5e0688e39749041a501898528f5aa5
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
