Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1528-1 serendipity -- insufficient input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 24 Mar 2008
- Affected Packages:
- serendipity
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 469667.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-6205, CVE-2008-0124, CVE-2008-1476. - More information:
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Peter Hüwe and Hanno Böck discovered that Serendipity, a weblog manager, did not properly sanitise input to several scripts which allowed cross site scripting.
The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain a serendipity package.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-1+etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your serendipity package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/serendipity/serendipity_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/serendipity/serendipity_1.0.4-1+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/serendipity/serendipity_1.0.4-1+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/serendipity/serendipity_1.0.4-1+etch1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/serendipity/serendipity_1.0.4-1+etch1_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.