DSA-1791-1 moin -- insufficient input sanitising

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1791-1 moin -- insufficient input sanitising

Date Reported:

06 May 2009

Affected Packages:

moin

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 526594.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-1482.

More information:

It was discovered that the AttachFile action in moin, a python clone of WikiWiki, is prone to cross-site scripting attacks when renaming attachements or performing other sub-actions.

The oldstable distribution (etch) is not vulnerable.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.1-3+lenny2.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your moin packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/moin_1.7.1-3+lenny2.diff.gz

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+lenny2.dsc

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moin/python-moinmoin_1.7.1-3+lenny2_all.deb

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