DSA-2694-1 spip -- privilege escalation

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2694-1 spip -- privilege escalation

Date Reported:

26 May 2013

Affected Packages:

spip

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 709674.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-2118.

More information:

A privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in SPIP, a website engine for publishing, which allows anyone to take control of the website.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.1-3squeeze6.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.17-1+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.22-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your spip packages.