Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1554-2 roundup -- insufficient input sanitising

Date Reported:

22 Apr 2008

Affected Packages:

roundup

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 472643.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1474.

More information:

Roundup, an issue tracking system, fails to properly escape HTML input, allowing an attacker to inject client-side code (typically JavaScript) into a document that may be viewed in the victim's browser.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-5+etch2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.3-3.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your roundup packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/roundup/roundup_1.2.1-5+etch2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/roundup/roundup_1.2.1.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/roundup/roundup_1.2.1-5+etch2.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/roundup/roundup_1.2.1-5+etch2_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.