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Debian 4.0: DSA-1523-1 Critical: Ikiwiki Cross-Site Scripting

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Calendar Grey March 17, 2008
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The Debian Advisory DSA-1523-1 discusses vulnerabilities in ikiwiki related to cross-site scripting and includes guidelines for implementing necessary security updates.
Josh Triplett discovered that ikiwiki did not block Javascript in URLs, leading to cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-0808, CVE-2008-0809).

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.31.1.

The old stable distribution (sarge) did not contain an ikiwiki package.

We recommend that you upgrade your ikiwiki 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

Size/MD5 checksum: 1015 2e29116078a22cf014f69352c3060ca7
Size/MD5 checksum: 227057 e9004c649fd2868f98db48f9d1a88cb5

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 273414 8b5e0688e39749041a501898528f5aa5


These files will probably be moved into the stable d...

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