DSA-2024-1 moin -- insufficient input sanitising

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2024-1 moin -- insufficient input sanitising

Date Reported:

31 Mar 2010

Affected Packages:

moin

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 575995.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-0828.

More information:

Jamie Strandboge discovered that moin, a python clone of WikiWiki, does not sufficiently sanitize the page name in "Despam" action, allowing remote attackers to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

In addition, this update fixes a minor issue in the "textcha" protection, it could be trivially bypassed by blanking the "textcha-question" and "textcha-answer" form fields.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.1-3+lenny4.

For the testing (squeeze) and unstable (sid) distribution, these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your moin package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.7.1.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.7.1-3+lenny4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.7.1-3+lenny4.dsc

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/python-moinmoin_1.7.1-3+lenny4_all.deb

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