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Gentoo GLSA-201210-02 Normal: MoinMoin Web Script Injection Advisory

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Calendar Grey October 18, 2012
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several security flaws identified in MoinMoin, enabling web script injections and presenting moderate severity threats. Take action to update immediately.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in MoinMoin, the worst of which allowing for injection of arbitrary web script or HTML.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MoinMoin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo remote attack normal MoinMoin HTML injection web script injection

Resolution

All MoinMoin users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/moinmoin-1.9.4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-0668 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0668 [ 2 ] CVE-2010-0669 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0669 [ 3 ] CVE-2010-0717 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0717 [ 4 ] CVE-2010-0828 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0828 [ 5 ] CVE-2010-1238 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1238 [ 6 ] CVE-2010-2487 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2487 [ 7 ] CVE-2010-2969 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2969 [ 8 ] CVE-2010-2970 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2970 [ 9 ] CVE-2011-1058 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1058

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201210-02
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: MoinMoin: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: October 18, 2012
Bugs: #305663, #339295
ID: 201210-02

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo remote attack normal MoinMoin HTML injection web script injection

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in MoinMoin, the worst of which allowing for injection of arbitrary web script or HTML.

Background

MoinMoin is a Python WikiEngine.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/moinmoin < 1.9.4 >= 1.9.4

Impact

===== These vulnerabilities in MoinMoin allow remote users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, to obtain sensitive information and to bypass the textcha protection mechanism. There are several other unknown impacts and attack vectors.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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