Debian: DSA-1528-1 Critical: Serendipity Insufficient Input Sanitization
debian
March 24, 2008
Peter Hüwe and Hanno Böck discovered that Serendipity, a weblog manager,
did not properly sanitise input to several scripts which allowed for
cross site scriptin
Summary
The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain a serendipity package.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your serendipity 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: 3058582 eaf26277af3d864fc3d6bbc6c42a00b7
Size/MD5 checksum: 21652 3de75c5011be95ffea76afe72ac2b598
Size/MD5 checksum: 888 2f8a7d7009104ed9c7ca804c7b6a2b15
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 2756036 4b2b44137ed11ca...
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