Debian: New phpgedview packages fix cross site scripting
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1559-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst April 27, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : phpgedview Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitising Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-5051 Debian Bug : 443901 It was discovered that phpGedView, an application to provide online access to genealogical data, performed insufficient input sanitising on some parameters, making it vulnerable to cross site scripting. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.2.dfsg-3. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.e+4.1.1-2. We recommend that you upgrade your phpgedview 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 - -------------------------------Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 6181964 73b1f051f01dcd6520a044badaa40fe6 Size/MD5 checksum: 7845 0ae3d02bf2f9bfecac01bfbb98e16b53 Size/MD5 checksum: 1053 30d7415d993b4034f44fdfcd9bf9d998 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 876616 0745d130e09318bd72790028db6a943d Size/MD5 checksum: 2270996 ce02af3e71b958d0fd3f72c1eea9eca4 Size/MD5 checksum: 1215452 dff7649b79e3f32ee6868839cd3c4c68 Size/MD5 checksum: 1821112 1b004f9221d532a1e07eb242bdd13ba1 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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