Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1774-1 ejabberd -- insufficient input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 17 Apr 2009
- Affected Packages:
- ejabberd
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0934.
- More information:
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It was discovered that ejabberd, a distributed, fault-tolerant Jabber/XMPP server, does not sufficiently sanitise MUC logs, allowing remote attackers to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The oldstable distribution (etch) is not affected by this issue.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1-6+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your ejabberd packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1_mips.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.
