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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2651-1 smokeping -- cross-site scripting vulnerability

Date Reported:

20 Mar 2013

Affected Packages:

smokeping

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 659899.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-0790.

More information:

A cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in smokeping, a latency logging and graphing system. Input passed to the displaymode parameter was not properly sanitized. An attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.6-5+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.7-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your smokeping packages.