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Debian 4.0: DSA-1596-1 Critical: TYPO3 Remote Code Execution Fix

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Calendar Grey June 12, 2008
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Uncover Debian Security Notification DSA-2001-2 concerning TYPO3 flaws that permit unauthorized code execution from a remote location.
Because of a not sufficiently secure default value of the TYPO3 configuration variable fileDenyPattern, authenticated backend users could upload files that allowed to execute a...

Summary


User input processed by fe_adminlib.inc is not being properly filtered
to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks, which is exposed when
specific plugins are in use.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.0.2+debian-5.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your typo3 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: 610 7d777c2c73dfbedc116cadb3c12af767
Size/MD5 checksum: 7683527...

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