[SECURITY] [DSA 2414-1] fex security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2413-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde
February 21, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : fex
Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitization
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2012-0869

Nicola Fioravanti discovered that F*X, a web service for transferring
very large files, is not properly sanitizing input parameters of the "fup"
script. An attacker can use this flaw to conduct reflected cross-site
scripting attacks via various script parameters.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 20100208+debian1-1+squeeze2.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed
in version 20120215-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your fex packages.

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