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Debian: new gforge packages fix cross site scripting Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Debian José Ramón Palanco discovered th a cross site scripting vulnerability in GForge, a collaborative development tool, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the context of a logged in user's session.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1475-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                          Thijs Kinkhorst
January 26, 2008                      http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : gforge
Vulnerability  : missing input sanitising
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2007-0176

José Ramón Palanco discovered th a cross site scripting vulnerability
in GForge, a collaborative development tool, allows remote attackers to
inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the context of a logged in user's
session.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
4.5.14-22etch5.

The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.6.99+svn6347-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gforge 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
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Source archives:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:  2161141 e85f82eff84ee073f80a2a52dd32c8a5
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch5.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:      950 5416e7f128db22b483573e7e2cf0b519
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch5.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:   197440 8a12d00cf17dfdd7494985c4f8f29911

Architecture independent packages:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-postfix_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    88336 ef9fd62cd1104bb8a0a44f9ab6c00f48
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    80086 aa3c0d2cf684fbf36461957983697905
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-common_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:  1010572 cdffbbec0307d622055f8c83d20729bc
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    88430 54534ede5d4892b11e811d1dd2c1e163
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim4_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    88940 297da4e3095868da632ab328e1d13b81
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   704662 73e25880fb3aeffdfa74b2135fd8a699
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-courier_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    75900 e57351a0174e579eaf4c5a22a6ef2c35
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-db-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   212338 73e57f965fcc865f1995ca6dab808282
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-lists-mailman_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    81914 5b8ba2b559bb02e5b8fbf3a136f2c05d
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ftp-proftpd_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    85866 9de18ba9b22999a83e5603a6cb6df245
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-dns-bind9_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   103578 0b763ea3bc7aa6f0f46575416b31120b
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-ldap_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    86154 aaa05646086fc3d408c010d7d0bb776b
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    86970 e6b3f1bd2667fb1e19e094719d3451ae
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ldap-openldap_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    95418 59e4878ae57e30de94925e1975cf8c11


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
 
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