redmine vulnerabilities

26 November 2019

redmine vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in redmine.

Software Description

• redmine - flexible project management web application

Details

It was discovered that Redmine incorrectly handle certain inputs that could cause textile formatting errors. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a XSS attack. (CVE-2019-17427)

It was discovered that an SQL injection could allow users to access protected information via a crafted object query. (CVE-2019-18890)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04

redmine - 4.0.1-2ubuntu0.1

redmine-mysql - 4.0.1-2ubuntu0.1

redmine-pgsql - 4.0.1-2ubuntu0.1

redmine-sqlite - 4.0.1-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

redmine - 3.4.4-1ubuntu0.1

redmine-mysql - 3.4.4-1ubuntu0.1

redmine-pgsql - 3.4.4-1ubuntu0.1

redmine-sqlite - 3.4.4-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

redmine - 3.2.1-2ubuntu0.2

redmine-mysql - 3.2.1-2ubuntu0.2

redmine-pgsql - 3.2.1-2ubuntu0.2

redmine-sqlite - 3.2.1-2ubuntu0.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2019-17427
• CVE-2019-18890