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Fedora 10: SA-CORE-2009-006 Critical: XSS in Drupal 6.12

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Tackling cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Drupal 6.12 enhances user data protection on Fedora 10. Input sanitization and output encoding minimize risks, ensuring a safer user experience
Fixes SA-CORE-2009-006 ( https:// )

Summary

Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal is a Content Management

System written in PHP that can support a variety of websites ranging from

personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. Drupal is highly

configurable, skinnable, and secure.

Update Information:

Fixes SA-CORE-2009-006 ( https:// ). Remember to log in to your site as the admin user before upgrading this package. After upgrading the package, browse to to run the upgrade script. When outputting user-supplied data Drupal strips potentially dangerous HTML attributes and tags or escapes characters which have a special meaning in HTML. This output filtering secures the site against cross site scripting attacks via user input. Certain byte sequences that are valid in the UTF-8 specification are potentially dangerous when interpreted as UTF-7. Internet Explorer 6 and 7 may decode these characters as UTF-7 if they appear before the tag that specifies the page content as UTF-8, despite the fact that Drupal also sends a real HTTP header specifying the content as UTF-8. This enables attackers to execute cross site scripting attacks with UTF-7. SA- CORE-2009-005 - Drupal core - Cross site scripting contained an incomplete fix for the issue. HTML exports of books are still vulnera...

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora cross site scripting drupal risk

Change Log

* Thu May 14 2009 Jon Ciesla - 6.12-1 - Update to 6.11, SA-CORE-2009-006. * Thu Apr 30 2009 Jon Ciesla - 6.11-1 - Update to 6.11, SA-CORE-2009-005. * Mon Apr 27 2009 Jon Ciesla - 6.10-2 - Added SELinux/sendmail note to README, BZ 497642. * Thu Feb 26 2009 Jon Ciesla - 6.10-1 - Update to 6.10, SA-CORE-2009-003. * Tue Feb 17 2009 Jon Ciesla - 6.9-2 - Drop pre script for files move, 472642. - Updated drupal-README.fedora. - Mark cron job noreplace, BZ 485567. * Thu Jan 15 2009 Jon Ciesla - 6.9-1 - Upgrade to 6.9, SA-CORE-2009-001. * Fri Jan 2 2009 Jon Ciesla - 6.8-1 - Upgrade to 6.8. - Move files directories from sites to /var/lib/drupal/files/N for selinux reasons, 472642. - Included script to move files outside of default, use at your own risk, patches welcome. * Thu Dec 11 2008 Jon Ciesla - 6.7-1 - Upgrade to 6.7, SA-2008-073.

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-5002 2009-05-15 22:45:17
Name : drupal Product : Fedora 10 Version : 6.12 Release : 1.fc10 URL : http://www.drupal.org Summary : An open-source content-management platform Description : Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal is a Content Management System written in PHP that can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. Drupal is highly configurable, skinnable, and secure.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update drupal' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: drupal
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 6.12
Release: 1.fc10
URL: http://www.drupal.org
Summary: An open-source content-management platform

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora cross site scripting drupal risk

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