DSA-1692-1 php-xajax -- insufficient input sanitising

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1692-1 php-xajax -- insufficient input sanitising

Date Reported:

27 Dec 2008

Affected Packages:

php-xajax

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-2739.

More information:

It was discovered that php-xajax, a library to develop Ajax applications, did not sufficiently sanitise URLs, which allows attackers to perform cross-site scripting attacks by using malicious URLs.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.4-2+etch4.

For the testing (lenny) and unstable (sid) distributions this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your php-xajax package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-xajax/php-xajax_0.2.4-2+etch4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-xajax/php-xajax_0.2.4-2+etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-xajax/php-xajax_0.2.4.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-xajax/php-xajax_0.2.4-2+etch4_all.deb

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