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Ubuntu: USN-4200-1 Critical: Redmine XSS and SQL Injection Threats

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Calendar Grey November 25, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4250-1 addresses several vulnerabilities related to the kernel and their applicable patches for different versions.
Several security issues were fixed in redmine.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in redmine.

Software Description:

- redmine: flexible project management web application

Details:

It was discovered that Redmine incorrectly handle certain inputs that could

cause textile formatting errors. An attacker could possibly use this issue to

cause a XSS attack. (CVE-2019-17427)

It was discovered that an SQL injection could allow users to access protected

information via a crafted object query. (CVE-2019-18890)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update sql injection xss ubuntu redmine

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
  redmine                         4.0.1-2ubuntu0.1
  redmine-mysql                   4.0.1-2ubuntu0.1
  redmine-pgsql                   4.0.1-2ubuntu0.1
  redmine-sqlite                  4.0.1-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  redmine                         3.4.4-1ubuntu0.1
  redmine-mysql                   3.4.4-1ubuntu0.1
  redmine-pgsql                   3.4.4-1ubuntu0.1
  redmine-sqlite                  3.4.4-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  redmine                         3.2.1-2ubuntu0.2
  redmine-mysql                   3.2.1-2ubuntu0.2
  redmine-pgsql                   3.2.1-2ubuntu0.2
  redmine-sqlite                  3.2.1-2ubuntu0.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4200-1

CVE-2019-17427, CVE-2019-18890

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November 26, 2019

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update sql injection xss ubuntu redmine

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/redmine/4.0.1-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/redmine/3.4.4-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/redmine/3.2.1-2ubuntu0.2

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