Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1875-1 ikiwiki -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:
31 Aug 2009
Affected Packages:
ikiwiki
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-2944.
More information:

Josh Triplett discovered that the blacklist for potentially harmful TeX code of the teximg module of the Ikiwiki wiki compiler was incomplete, resulting in information disclosure.

The old stable distribution (etch) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.53.4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1415926.

We recommend that you upgrade your ikiwiki package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ikiwiki/ikiwiki_2.53.4.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ikiwiki/ikiwiki_2.53.4.dsc
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ikiwiki/ikiwiki_2.53.4_all.deb

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