DSA 724-1: New phpsysinfo packages fix cross site scripting

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 05/18/2005 09:11 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

New phpsysinfo packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 724-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
May 18th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : phpsysinfo
Vulnerability : design flaw
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-0870
Debian Bug : 301118

Maksymilian Arciemowicz discoverd several cross site scripting issues in phpsysinfo, a PHP based host information application.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0-3woody2.

For the testing (sarge) and unstable (sid) distribution these problems have been fixed in version 2.3-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpsysinfo 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 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpsysinfo/phpsysinfo_2.0-3woody2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 622 bc59ec24d7ef4b8b1c0e17cd7753fa19
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpsysinfo/phpsysinfo_2.0-3woody2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 2765 a6933aed26ea8425379b37b2ae7c8ba8
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpsysinfo/phpsysinfo_2.0.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 48104 abd184ebc003aeba07d9945bb9c6ff0f

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpsysinfo/phpsysinfo_2.0-3woody2_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 42256 f714e679fc08c95a2bdada5c4371f07c

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