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Debian: DSA-1528-1 Critical: Serendipity Insufficient Input Sanitization

Peter Hüwe and Hanno Böck discovered that Serendipity, a weblog manager, did not properly sanitise input to several scripts which allowed for cross site scriptin. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1528-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst March 24, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : serendipity Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitising Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-6205 CVE-2008-0124 BugTraq ID : 28298 Debian Bug : 469667 Peter Hüwe and Hanno Böck discovered that Serendipity, a weblog manager, did not properly sanitise input to several scripts which allowed for cross site scripting. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-1+etch1. The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain a serendipity package. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your serendipity package. 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 4.0 alias etch - -------------------------------Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 3058582 eaf26277af3d864fc3d6bbc6c42a00b7 Size/MD5 checksum: 21652 3de75c5011be95ffea76afe72ac2b598 Size/MD5 checksum: 888 2f8a7d7009104ed9c7ca804c7b6a2b15 Architecture independentpackages: Size/MD5 checksum: 2756036 4b2b44137ed11caacba846c0761204f6 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. . Enhance security and fix cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Serendipity on Debian by updating packages, cleaning up, and checking settings. Serendipity Package, Debian Security, Cross Site Scripting, Input Sanitisation. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Mar 24, 2008 •Critical Debian