[SECURITY] [DSA 2083-1] New moin packages fix cross-site scripting

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2083-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde
August 2nd, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : moin
Vulnerability : missing input sanitization
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
Debian bug : 584809
CVE ID : CVE-2010-2487

It was discovered that moin, a python clone of WikiWiki, does not sufficiently
sanitize parameters when passing them to the add_msg function. This allows a
remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks for example
via the template parameter.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.7.1-3+lenny5.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9.3-1.

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/m/moin/moin_1.7.1-3+lenny5.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1259 574199fc8e4c954cdd8b75e81eecdcf2
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.7.1.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 5468224 871337b8171c91f9a6803e5376857e8d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.7.1-3+lenny5.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 92369 5363c01a34f85326113d767264edd42a

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/python-moinmoin_1.7.1-3+lenny5_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 4499604 c17eeecc46d92ea6db6078884c777669

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: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;