DSA-1836-1 fckeditor -- missing input sanitising

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1836-1 fckeditor -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

16 Jul 2009

Affected Packages:

fckeditor

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-2265.

More information:

Vinny Guido discovered that multiple input sanitising vulnerabilities in Fckeditor, a rich text web editor component, may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (etch) doesn't contain fckeditor.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.6.2-1lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.6.4.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your fckeditor package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fckeditor/fckeditor_2.6.2.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fckeditor/fckeditor_2.6.2-1lenny1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fckeditor/fckeditor_2.6.2-1lenny1.dsc

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fckeditor/fckeditor_2.6.2-1lenny1_all.deb

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