Debian: DSA-1554-1 Critical: Roundup Cross-Site Scripting Flaw
debian
April 22, 2008
Roundup, an issue tracking system, fails to properly escape HTML input,
allowing an attacker to inject client-side code (typically JavaScript)
into a document that may be viewed ...
Summary
We recommend that you upgrade your roundup 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 GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 690 2bf102c80abab65bf5b7d8804a29bc4d
Size/MD5 checksum: 1058595 38de336cf23d0dc20df17695b7c72806
Size/MD5 checksum: 25739 61583ff7c94651b7380794b421fcc521
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1003008 00f33566e9993e7aaa37f6b99c3d186e
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
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