GLSA 200901-08 Online-Bookmarks: Multiple vulnerabilities

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A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - Online-Bookmarks: Multiple vulnerabilities. Here the announcement:

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200901-08
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Severity: Normal
Title: Online-Bookmarks: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 12, 2009
Bugs: #235053
ID: 200901-08

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Online-Bookmarks.

Background
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Online-Bookmarks is a web-based bookmark management system to store
your bookmarks, favorites and links.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 www-apps/online-bookmarks lt; 0.6.28 gt;= 0.6.2=
8

Description
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The following vulnerabilities were reported:

* Authentication bypass when directly requesting certain pages
(CVE-2004-2155).

* Insufficient input validation in the login function in auth.inc
(CVE-2006-6358).

* Unspecified cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2006-6359).

Impact
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A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass
authentication mechanisms, execute arbitrary SQL statements or inject
arbitrary web scripts.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Online-Bookmarks users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "gt;=www-apps/online-bookmarks-0.6.2=
8"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2004-2155
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2155
[ 2 ] CVE-2006-6358
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6358
[ 3 ] CVE-2006-6359
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6359

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-08.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5