Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1242-1 elog -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 27 Dec 2006
- Affected Packages:
- elog
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5063, CVE-2006-5790, CVE-2006-5791, CVE-2006-6318.
- More information:
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Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in elog, a web-based electronic logbook, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2006-5063
Tilman Koschnick discovered that log entry editing in HTML is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This update disables the vulnerable code.
- CVE-2006-5790
Ulf Härnhammar of the Debian Security Audit Project discovered several format string vulnerabilities in elog, which may lead to execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2006-5791
Ulf Härnhammar of the Debian Security Audit Project discovered cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the creation of new logbook entries.
- CVE-2006-6318
Jayesh KS and Arun Kethipelly of OS2A discovered that elog performs insufficient error handling in config file parsing, which may lead to denial of service through a NULL pointer dereference.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3.
The upcoming stable distribution (etch) will no longer include elog.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.2+r1754-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your elog package.
- CVE-2006-5063
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elog/elog_2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.