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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1882-1] New xapian-omega packages fix cross-site script

    From Nico Golde@1:229/2 to All on Wed Sep 9 15:40:35 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1882-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde September 9th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : xapian-omega
    Vulnerability : missing input sanitization
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2009-2947

    It was discovered that xapian-omega, a CGI interface for searching xapian databases, is not properly escaping user supplied input when printing exceptions. An attacker can use this to conduct cross-site scripting
    attacks via crafted search queries resulting in an exception and steal potentially sensitive data from web applications running on the same domain
    or embedding the search engine into a website.

    For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
    version 0.9.9-1+etch1.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.0.7-3+lenny1.

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


    We recommend that you upgrade your xapian-omega packages.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Debian (oldstable)
    - ------------------

    Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9-1+etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1309 5a6c3eb3466e76a5cd0195da96d646c8
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9-1+etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 7283 fa1327788649c4b702555552484298ca
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 456940 cf2cfa2d98948ba6c5440db5e5baabc6

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9-1+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 264408 37050849b159d950718961ee8c9fc53a

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9-1+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 243398 039ab294a191863a6f11f9461d442fdb

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9-1+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 271312 71c448519cc2952134c3c604d46e364b

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9-1+etch1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 261640 6ec25e571ae0f72f2ce677d02f7a33c0

    i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9-1+etch1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 247156 79d32ec1534b0c47306adc9e34ff7a2c

    ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9-1+etch1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 295998 0d0b0e45a813c5c3384beea87bf67d70

    mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9-1+etch1_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 242622 75cbb4b5d4ccb7b17ebc5e43d3964550

    mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9-1+etch1_mipsel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 242346 ea46d3fee9009a61628a40d548677579

    powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9-1+etch1_powerpc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 249362 13726168ebf17a82cde5d53b839b4921

    s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9-1+etch1_s390.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 235796 1190383d3c937065802b81fae40fdaa1

    sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_0.9.9-1+etch1_sparc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 242226 b7d5339d30fb2c16fcd2efe4364b36f7


    Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
    - --------------------------------

    Debian (stable)
    - ---------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_1.0.7-3+lenny1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1802 cfe788a8d23049aa8424c4c6ff572989
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_1.0.7.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 498784 8a143dcee3f6463277dc63cd1c9ef39d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_1.0.7-3+lenny1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 9310 57f3cb25f1a6b8355e0922d083cb8e54

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_1.0.7-3+lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 280398 374175b22352fd3375430756f134e392

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_1.0.7-3+lenny1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 255794 da184e290012863e97bb0b91bb7e61c3

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_1.0.7-3+lenny1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 270630 55379e802f6532e59e78d75300d86093

    armel architecture (ARM EABI)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xapian-omega/xapian-omega_1.0.7-3+lenny1_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 243456 f2020f9eb2927a0688bacde831f6e8c7

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)


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