Debian: DSA-1554-2 Critical: Roundup Input Sanitization Flaw
debian
May 6, 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 ...
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.3-3.1.
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
Size/MD5 checksum: 982 90a8692563dfca36cb0778b6429aa664
Size/MD5 checksum: 1058595 38de336cf23d0dc20df17695b7c72806
Size/MD5 checksum: 26324 662312074898af0226c723e133fb92cd
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1003218 ad60e355ed48161d847860a0f3bb8f2b
These files will probably be moved into the stable di...
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