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Debian DSA 951-2 Critical: Trac SQL Injection And XSS Threat

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Calendar Grey January 30, 2006
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Debian security announcement DSA 951-2 tackles vulnerabilities in trac package related to SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), outlining required procedures for a safe upgrade.
This update corrects the search feature in trac, an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects, which broke with the last security update.

Summary


CVE-2005-4065

Due to missing input sanitising it is possible to inject arbitrary
SQL code into the SQL statements.

CVE-2005-4644

A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been discovered that
allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain trac packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.8.1-3sarge4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.9.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your trac 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
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