DSA-768-1 phpbb2 -- missing input validation

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-768-1 phpbb2 -- missing input validation

Date Reported:

27 Jul 2005

Affected Packages:

phpbb2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 317739.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2161.

More information:

A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been detected in phpBB2, a fully featured and skinnable flat webforum software, that allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via nested tags.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain phpbb2.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.13-6sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.13-6sarge1.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpbb2 packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2_2.0.13+1-6sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2_2.0.13+1-6sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2_2.0.13+1.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2-conf-mysql_2.0.13-6sarge1_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2-languages_2.0.13-6sarge1_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2_2.0.13-6sarge1_all.deb

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