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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-9213 (drupal)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: drupal-6.6-1.fc9
Date:  Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:50:02 +0000
Message-ID:  <20081030125002.3C0FB208970@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-9213 2008-10-30 11:39:59 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : drupal Product : Fedora 9 Version : 6.6 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.drupal.org Summary : An open-source content-management platform Description : Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal is a Content Management System written in PHP that can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. Drupal is highly configurable, skinnable, and secure. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to 6.6, security fixes: SA-2008-067 ( http://drupal.org/node/324824 ) ------------DESCRIPTION------------ Multiple vulnerabilities and weaknesses were discovered in Drupal. ------------FILE INCLUSION------------ On a server configured for IP-based virtual hosts, Drupal may be caused to include and execute specifically named files outside of its root directory. This bug affects both Drupal 5 and Drupal 6. ------------CROSS SITE SCRIPTING------------ The title of book pages is not always properly escaped, enabling users with the "create book content" permission or the permission to edit any node in the book hierarchy to insert arbitrary HTML and script code into pages. Such a Cross site scripting [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross- site_scripting ] attack may lead to the attacker gaining administrator access. This bug affects Drupal 6. Remember to log in to your site as the admin user before upgrading this package. After upgrading the package, browse to http://host/drupal/update.php to run the upgrade script. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Oct 22 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 6.6-1 - Upgrade to 6.6, SA-2008-067. * Thu Oct 9 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 6.5-1 - Upgrade to 6.5, SA-2008-060. - Added notes to README and drupal.conf re CVE-2008-3661. * Thu Aug 14 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 6.4-1 - Upgrade to 6.4, SA-2008-047. * Thu Jul 10 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 6.3-1 - Upgrade to 6.3, upstream security fixes, SA-2008-044. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #468422 - drupal: File inclusion, XSS vulnerability (SA-2008-067) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468422 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update drupal' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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