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Debian: DSA-1287-1 Moderate: Ldap-Account-Manager Remote Security Threat

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2007
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Enhance ldap-account-manager security on Debian 3.1 by backing up, upgrading packages, reviewing settings, and monitoring for intrusions to protect against threats
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in the version of ldap-account-manager shipped with Debian 3.1 (sarge)

Summary


CVE-2007-1840
Improper escaping of HTML content could allow an attacker to execute a
cross-site scripting attack (XSS) and execute arbitrary code in the
victim's browser in the security context of the affected web site.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.9-2sarge1. Newer versions of Debian (etch, lenny, and sid),
are not affected.

We recommend that you upgrade your ldap-account-manager 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 3.1 (oldstable)
- ----------------------Oldstable updates are available for alpha...

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