Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1475-1 gforge -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

26 Jan 2008

Affected Packages:

gforge

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-0176.

More information:

José Ramón Palanco discovered that a cross site scripting vulnerability in GForge, a collaborative development tool, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the context of a logged in user's session.

The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.6.99+svn6347-1.

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_4.5.14-22etch5.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch5.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-postfix_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-common_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim4_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-courier_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-db-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-lists-mailman_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ftp-proftpd_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-dns-bind9_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-ldap_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ldap-openldap_4.5.14-22etch5_all.deb

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