Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1715-1 moin -- insufficient input sanitising

Date Reported:

29 Jan 2009

Affected Packages:

moin

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 513158.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0260, CVE-2009-0312.

More information:

It was discovered that the AttachFile action in moin, a python clone of WikiWiki, is prone to cross-site scripting attacks (CVE-2009-0260). Another cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in the antispam feature (CVE-2009-0312).

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.3-1.2etch2.

For the testing (lenny) distribution these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.1-3+lenny1.

For the unstable (sid) distribution these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.1-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your moin packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.5.3-1.2etch2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.5.3.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.5.3-1.2etch2.dsc
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/python-moinmoin_1.5.3-1.2etch2_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moinmoin-common_1.5.3-1.2etch2_all.deb

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