Gregor Kopf of Secfault Security GmbH discovered that HSQLDB, a Java SQL database engine, allowed the execution of spurious scripting commands in .script and .log files. Hsqldb supports a SCRIPT keyword which is normally used to record the commands input by the database admin to output such a script. In combination with LibreOffice, an attacker could craft an odb containing a "database/script" file which itself contained a SCRIPT command where the contents of the file could be written to a new file whose location was determined by the attacker. For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.1-1+deb11u2. For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.1-1+deb12u1. We recommend that you upgrade your hsqldb packages. For the detailed security status of hsqldb please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/hsqldb
Gregor Kopf of Secfault Security GmbH discovered that HSQLDB, a Java SQL
database engine, allowed the execution of spurious scripting commands in
.script and .log files. Hsqldb supports a SCRIPT
keyword which is normally
used to record the commands input by the database admin to output such a
script. In combination with LibreOffice, an attacker could craft an odb
containing a "database/script" file which itself contained a SCRIPT command
where the contents of the file could be written to a new file whose location
was determined by the attacker.
For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.1-1+deb11u2.
For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.1-1+deb12u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your hsqldb packages.
For the detailed security status of hsqldb please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/hsqldb
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