Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1279-1 webcalendar -- missing input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 22 Apr 2007
- Affected Packages:
- webcalendar
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-6669.
- More information:
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It was discovered that WebCalendar, a PHP-based calendar application, performs insufficient sanitising in the exports handler, which allows injection of web script.
For the old stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.45-4sarge7.
The stable distribution (etch) no longer contains WebCalendar packages.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.5-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your webcalendar package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge7.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge7.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge7.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge7_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.