Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1791-1 moin -- insufficient input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 06 May 2009
- Affected Packages:
- moin
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 526594.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-1482. - More information:
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It was discovered that the AttachFile action in moin, a python clone of WikiWiki, is prone to cross-site scripting attacks when renaming attachements or performing other sub-actions.
The oldstable distribution (etch) is not vulnerable.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.1-3+lenny2.
For the testing (squeeze) distribution and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your moin packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.7.1-3+lenny2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.7.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.7.1-3+lenny2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.7.1.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/python-moinmoin_1.7.1-3+lenny2_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.