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:

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
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.