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

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2012-0790  

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.

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.