Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1698-1 gforge -- insufficient input sanitising

Date Reported:

09 Jan 2009

Affected Packages:

gforge

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2381.

More information:

It was discovered that GForge, a collaborative development tool, insufficiently sanitises some input allowing a remote attacker to perform SQL injection.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch10.

For the testing (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.7~rc2-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your gforge package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch10.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch10.dsc
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-dns-bind9_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-db-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ftp-proftpd_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-common_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-postfix_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-courier_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim4_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ldap-openldap_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-ldap_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-lists-mailman_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim_4.5.14-22etch10_all.deb

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