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Debian: New moin packages fix several vulnerabilities Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Debian Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in MoinMoin, a Python clone of WikiWiki. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1514-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff
March 9, 2008                         http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : moin
Vulnerability  : several
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2007-2423 CVE-2007-2637 CVE-2008-0780 CVE-2008-0781 CVE-2008-0782 CVE-2008-1098 CVE-2008-1099

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in MoinMoin, a
Python clone of WikiWiki. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2007-2423

    A cross-site-scripting vulnerability has been discovered in
    attachment handling.

CVE-2007-2637

    Access control lists for calendars and includes were
    insufficiently enforced, which could lead to information
    disclosure.

CVE-2008-0780

    A cross-site-scripting vulnerability has been discovered in
    the login code.

CVE-2008-0781

    A cross-site-scripting vulnerability has been discovered in
    attachment handling.

CVE-2008-0782

    A directory traversal vulnerability in cookie handling could
    lead to local denial of service by overwriting files.

CVE-2008-1098

    Cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities have been discovered in
    the GUI editor formatter and the code to delete pages.

CVE-2008-1099

    The macro code validates access control lists insufficiently,
    which could lead to information disclosure.


For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.5.3-1.2etch1. This update also includes a bugfix wrt the
encoding of password reminder mails, which doesn't have security
implications.

The old stable distribution (sarge) will not be updated due to
the many changes and support for Sarge ending end of this month
anyway. You're advised to upgrade to the stable distribution if
you run moinmoin.

We recommend that you upgrade your moin 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 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------

Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.5.3.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:  4187091 e95ec46ee8de9527a39793108de22f7d
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.5.3-1.2etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    40942 13984aca140b63e2303a6034fcd4f9ec
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.5.3-1.2etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:      663 0650a6782cb8b11d99fbfa40378c1dfb

Architecture independent packages:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moinmoin-common_1.5.3-1.2etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:  1596522 2cd40d664082f835b2def29629ff58e8
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/python-moinmoin_1.5.3-1.2etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   915318 0a8dba5cff0e5540e4e55d39855316d4


  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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