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Debian Lenny DSA-1778-1 Critical: Mahara XSS Input Issue

It was discovered that mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder, is prone to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks because of missing input sanitization of the introduction text field in user . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1778-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde April 22nd, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : mahara Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitization Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2009-0664 It was discovered that mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder, is prone to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks because of missing input sanitization of the introduction text field in user profiles and any text field in a user view. The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain mahara. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-4+lenny2. For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your mahara packages. 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 5.0 alias lenny - -------------------------------- Debian (stable) - --------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386,ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 1303 934fdf17abf7221e30fe68c925377126 Size/MD5 checksum: 39307 3193a6e1483f1375430cc236230bc9cc Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 1637064 9fc42b011a826509edc1fccdb9bc149e Size/MD5 checksum: 7830 30c258196ccbdddc6c4f25e1534ba96e These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb https://www.debian.org/security/ 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 . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ----------------------------------------------------. mahara, electronic, portfolio, weblog, resume, builder, prone. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Apr 22, 2009 •Critical Debian