Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:18:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: [email protected] (Martin Schulze)
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 711-1] New info2www packages fix cross-site scripting vulnerability
Priority: urgent
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 711-1 [email protected]http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
April 19th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : info2www
Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2004-1341
Debian Bug : 281655
Nicolas Gregoire discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in
info2www, a converter for info files to HTML. A malicious person
could place a harmless looking link on the web that could cause
arbitrary commands to be executed in the browser of the victim user.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.2.9-20woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.2.9-23.
We recommend that you upgrade your info2www 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/i/info2www/info2www_1.2.2.9-20woody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 600 68a3d62f9ff13abaf1cd2b2ca479c8e9
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/info2www/info2www_1.2.2.9-20woody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 27216 d4bf5b04bfcaa304bbe18969346a281e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/info2www/info2www_1.2.2.9.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 12407 2d79050502b938fae36d6d38e1d5084b
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/info2www/info2www_1.2.2.9-20woody1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 34006 93914a2ed64150b8682e8e419f7878ed
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: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<;pkg>
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