Debian: New roundup packages fix cross-site scripting vulnerability
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1554-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Noah Meyerhans April 22, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : roundup Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitising Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-1474 Debian Bug : 472643 Roundup, an issue tracking system, fails to properly escape HTML input, allowing an attacker to inject client-side code (typically JavaScript) into a document that may be viewed in the victim's browser. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-5+etch1. We recommend that you upgrade your roundup packages. 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 - -------------------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 690 2bf102c80abab65bf5b7d8804a29bc4d Size/MD5 checksum: 1058595 38de336cf23d0dc20df17695b7c72806 Size/MD5 checksum: 25739 61583ff7c94651b7380794b421fcc521 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 1003008 00f33566e9993e7aaa37f6b99c3d186e These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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