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Debian: New serendipity packages fix cross site scripting

Peter Hüwe and Hanno Böck discovered that Serendipity, a weblog manager, did not properly sanitise input to several scripts which allowed for cross site scripting. Fixed packages are available from security.debian.org.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1528-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                          Thijs Kinkhorst
March 24, 2008                        http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : serendipity
Vulnerability  : insufficient input sanitising
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2007-6205 CVE-2008-0124
BugTraq ID     : 28298
Debian Bug     : 469667

Peter Hüwe and Hanno Böck discovered that Serendipity, a weblog manager,
did not properly sanitise input to several scripts which allowed for
cross site scripting.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
1.0.4-1+etch1.

The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain a serendipity package.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your serendipity package.

Upgrade instructions
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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
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Source archives:

 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/serendipity/serendipity_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
   Size/MD5 checksum:  3058582 eaf26277af3d864fc3d6bbc6c42a00b7
 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/serendipity/serendipity_1.0.4-1+etch1.diff.gz
   Size/MD5 checksum:    21652 3de75c5011be95ffea76afe72ac2b598
 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/serendipity/serendipity_1.0.4-1+etch1.dsc
   Size/MD5 checksum:      888 2f8a7d7009104ed9c7ca804c7b6a2b15

Architecture independent packages:

 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/serendipity/serendipity_1.0.4-1+etch1_all.deb
   Size/MD5 checksum:  2756036 4b2b44137ed11caacba846c0761204f6


 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
 its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/
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