DSA-1481-1 python-cherrypy -- missing input sanitising

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1481-1 python-cherrypy -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

05 Feb 2008

Affected Packages:

python-cherrypy

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-0252.

More information:

It was discovered that a directory traversal vulnerability in CherryPy, a pythonic, object-oriented web development framework, may lead to denial of service by deleting files through malicious session IDs in cookies.

The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain python-cherrypy.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.1-3etch4.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-cherrypy packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cherrypy/python-cherrypy_2.2.1-3etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cherrypy/python-cherrypy_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cherrypy/python-cherrypy_2.2.1-3etch4.dsc

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cherrypy/python-cherrypy_2.2.1-3etch4_all.deb

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