Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3897-1 drupal7 -- security update

Date Reported:
24 Jun 2017
Affected Packages:
drupal7
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 865498.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-7943, CVE-2017-6922.
More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Drupal, a fully-featured content management framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

  • CVE-2015-7943

    Samuel Mortenson and Pere Orga discovered that the overlay module does not sufficiently validate URLs prior to displaying their contents, leading to an open redirect vulnerability.

    More information can be found at https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2015-004

  • CVE-2017-6922

    Greg Knaddison, Mori Sugimoto and iancawthorne discovered that files uploaded by anonymous users into a private file system can be accessed by other anonymous users leading to an access bypass vulnerability.

    More information can be found at https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2017-003

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 7.32-1+deb8u9.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 7.52-2+deb9u1. For the stable distribution (stretch), CVE-2015-7943 was already fixed before the initial release.

We recommend that you upgrade your drupal7 packages.