Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1324-1 hiki -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:
28 Jun 2007
Affected Packages:
hiki
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 430691.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-2836.
More information:

Kazuhiro Nishiyama found a vulnerability in hiki, a Wiki engine written in Ruby, which could allow a remote attacker to delete arbitrary files which are writable to the Hiki user, via a specially crafted session parameter.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.6-1etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your hiki package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hiki/hiki_0.8.6-1etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hiki/hiki_0.8.6-1etch1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hiki/hiki_0.8.6.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hiki/hiki_0.8.6-1etch1_all.deb

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