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Debian DSA-798-1 : phpgroupware - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19568

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpgroupware, a web-based groupware system written in PHP. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

 - CAN-2005-2498 Stefan Esser discovered another vulnerability in the XML-RPC libraries that allows injection of arbitrary PHP code into eval() statements. The XMLRPC component has been disabled.

 - CAN-2005-2600

 Alexander Heidenreich discovered a cross-site scripting problem in the tree view of FUD Forum Bulletin Board Software, which is also present in phpgroupware.

 - CAN-2005-2761

 A global cross-site scripting fix has also been included that protects against potential malicious scripts embedded in CSS and xmlns in various parts of the application and modules.

This update also contains a postinst bugfix that has been approved for the next update to the stable release.

Solution

Upgrade the phpgroupware packages.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems don't apply.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.16.005-3.sarge2.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-798

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19568

File Name: debian_DSA-798.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/6/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:phpgroupware, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2498, CVE-2005-2600, CVE-2005-2761

DSA: 798