DSA 1486-1: New gnatsweb packages fix cross-site scripting

Posted by Bob on: 02/05/2008 06:30 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1486-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp
February 04, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : gnatsweb
Vulnerability : cross-site scripting
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-2808
Debian Bug : 427156

"r0t" discovered that gnatsweb, a web interface to GNU GNATS, did not
correctly sanitize the database parameter in the main CGI script. This
could allow the injection of arbitrary HTML, or javascript code.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
4.00-1etch1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnatsweb package.

Upgrade instructions
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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
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnatsweb/gnatsweb_4.00-1etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 566 2f4db4f88a4018f68c19598e9b3781e1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnatsweb/gnatsweb_4.00.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 87656 1d715610ea05ad3aa498d20158b01667
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnatsweb/gnatsweb_4.00-1etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 2396 82f3180801f111b682a8e94c41c2627c

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnatsweb/gnatsweb_4.00-1etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 56190 2decb55d6c8e571474b4375394fc14f0

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

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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 lt;pkggt;' and http://packages.debian.org/lt;pkggt;
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