Debian: DSA-1692-1 Remote Moderate Threat: Php-Xajax Cross-Site Attack Fix
debian
December 27, 2008
It was discovered that php-xajax, a library to develop Ajax applications, did not sufficiently sanitise URLs, which allows attackers to perform cross-site scripting attacks by usin...
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Summary
For the testing (lenny) and unstable (sid) distributions this problem
has been fixed in version 0.2.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your php-xajax 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: 648 f4bbc450f631e1a000679690858997ff
Size/MD5 checksum: 3441 37934d6df03bca92b0ee2d029b46faa4
Size/MD5 checksum: 48261 58229c55be17c681a22699b564e6be26
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 44770 152e977b65bc603155947edf9738ab31
These files will probably be moved ...
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