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Debian: DSA 109-1 Moderate: Cross-Site Scripting in Faq-O-Matic

Due to unescaped HTML code Faq-O-Matic returned unverified scriptingcode to the browser. With some tweaking this enables an attacker tosteal cookies from one of the Faq-O-Matic moderators or the admin.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 109-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Debian -- Security Information Martin Schulze February 13th, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : faqomatic Vulnerability : cross-site scripting vulnerability Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no Due to unescaped HTML code Faq-O-Matic returned unverified scripting code to the browser. With some tweaking this enables an attacker to steal cookies from one of the Faq-O-Matic moderators or the admin. Cross-Site Scripting is a type of problem that allows a malicious person to make another person run some JavaScript in their browser. The JavaScript is executed on the victims machine and is in the context of the website running the Faq-O-Matic Frequently Asked Question manager. This problem has been fixed in version 2.603-1.2 for the stable Debian distribution and version 2.712-2 for the current testing/unstable distribution. We recommend that you upgrade your faqomatic package if you have it installed. 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 2.2 alias potato ------------------------------------ Source archives: MD5 checksum: d08b89341a1bf8a009830032a3e11201 MD5 checksum: 216db746a96b1bbce8b39edcc0c9b550 MD5 checksum:bbf875409cb58c24946a1b7d621d1a80 Architecture independent components: MD5 checksum: cd2dfe85ed8fb844dad23e61f15e07f3 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Package info: `apt-cache show ' and https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages . Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Faq-O-Matic poses risks to admin cookies requiring prompt updates.. Faqomatic Security,Cross-Site Scripting,Debian Advisory,Cookie Theft,Remote Threats. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Feb 13, 2002 Debian