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Debian alert DSA-2020-1 (ikiwiki)

From:  Nico Golde <nion@debian.org>
To:  debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] [DSA 2020-1] New ikiwiki packages fix cross-site scripting
Date:  Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:34:35 +0100
Message-ID:  <20100320143435.GA1954@ngolde.de>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2020-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde March 20th, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : ikiwiki Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitization Problem type : local/remote Debian-specific: no Debian bug : none CVE ID : none assigned yet Ivan Shmakov discovered that the htmlscrubber component of ikwiki, a wiki compiler, performs insufficient input sanitization on data:image/svg+xml URIs. As these can contain script code this can be used by an attacker to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.53.5. For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.20100312. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.20100312. 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 5.0 alias lenny - -------------------------------- Debian (stable) - --------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ikiwiki/ik... Size/MD5 checksum: 1736 cf65b7fa1ea53f80088e5e7a24bf4f28 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ikiwiki/ik... Size/MD5 checksum: 771947 1c05117599045714fc477f757c675478 Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ikiwiki/ik... Size/MD5 checksum: 918452 ae67075b982fd6b19adca30f2393ee9a 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: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuk3PsACgkQHYflSXNkfP8IZwCffgDYNqE3eghVbUzXrsR8FVVi 9DwAninCK5jtR+1GiPeQ1uZxYQHBJUow =m2YA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-announce-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100320143435.GA1954@ngolde.de


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