Debian: DSA-1633-1 Critical: Slash SQL Injection And XSS Threat
debian
September 1, 2008
It has been discovered that Slash, the Slashdot Like Automated
Storytelling Homepage suffers from two vulnerabilities related to
insufficient input sanitation, leading to execu...
Topics Covered
Summary
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
- --------------------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: 954 70b86d7e0c6f4d70e6ecc1e027739be5
Size/MD5 checksum: 584128 a9886e1e08e47e0db4f3ba3e750102ff
Size/MD5 checksum: 21622 2b23a32433e9b168b09ad43e0fd1d160
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 591940 9e38837b0a8f3cc1d3459dacc58c23c6
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
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