Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1633-1 slash -- SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting
- Date Reported:
- 01 Sep 2008
- Affected Packages:
- slash
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 484499.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2231, CVE-2008-2553. - More information:
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It has been discovered that Slash, the Slashdot Like Automated Storytelling Homepage suffers from two vulnerabilities related to insufficient input sanitation, leading to execution of SQL commands (CVE-2008-2231) and cross-site scripting (CVE-2008-2553).
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.6-8etch1.
In the unstable distribution (sid), the slash package is currently uninstallable and will be removed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your slash package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6.orig.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slash/slash_2.2.6-8etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.