Debian: New php-xajax packages fix cross-site scripting
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1692-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris December 27, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : php-xajax Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitising Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-2739 It was discovered that php-xajax, a library to develop Ajax applications, did not sufficiently sanitise URLs, which allows attackers to perform cross-site scripting attacks by using malicious URLs. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.4-2+etch1. For the testing (lenny) and unstable (sid) distributions this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.5-1. We recommend that you upgrade your php-xajax 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: 648 f4bbc450f631e1a000679690858997ff Size/MD5 checksum: 3441 37934d6df03bca92b0ee2d029b46faa4 Size/MD5 checksum: 48261 58229c55be17c681a22699b564e6be26 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 44770 152e977b65bc603155947edf9738ab31 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