It has been discovered that Slash, the Slashdot Like Automated Storytelling Homepage suffers from two vulnerabilities related to insufficient input sanitation, leading to execution of SQL commands (CVE-2008-2231) and cross-site scripting (CVE-2008-2553).

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1633-1                  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
http://www.debian.org/security/                           Florian Weimer
September 01, 2008                    http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : slash
Vulnerability  : SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2008-2231, CVE-2008-2553
Debian Bug     : 484499

It has been discovered that Slash, the Slashdot Like Automated
Storytelling Homepage suffers from two vulnerabilities related to
insufficient input sanitation, leading to execution of SQL commands 
(CVE-2008-2231) and cross-site scripting (CVE-2008-2553).

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.2.6-8etch1.

In the unstable distribution (sid), the slash package is currently
uninstallable and will be removed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your slash package.

Upgrade instructions
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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
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Source archives:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:      954 70b86d7e0c6f4d70e6ecc1e027739be5
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:   584128 a9886e1e08e47e0db4f3ba3e750102ff
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    21622 2b23a32433e9b168b09ad43e0fd1d160

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   591940 9e38837b0a8f3cc1d3459dacc58c23c6

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   588970 e81e95ed88e082dc56cd10b3770c4360

arm architecture (ARM)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   589446 925a97d085854e35f4e9bd678b99454e

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   594236 702a6635658253ad1c5c69169174dcfc

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   587830 005ed926fe7595e45d2780c37bd6d09f

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   589356 a75d5d65a4499f1d9278df08849959ce

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   586112 a2b1336b77de1682ae764c3e05a5950e

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_mipsel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   587726 25c8ea639b4aa9c924e26ab33e5d59d6

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_powerpc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   590880 71de67c5a29a3c3122f74570ea090435

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_s390.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   587744 c4809262d63d3449c41e8816b2a8cea1

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_sparc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   588014 8ef8f770f5f22f9473133f382fd7bb18


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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