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Debian DSA-840-1 : drupal - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19809

Synopsis

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

Description

Stefan Esser of the Hardened-PHP Project reported a serious vulnerability in the third-party XML-RPC library included with some Drupal versions. An attacker could execute arbitrary PHP code on a target site. This update pulls in the latest XML-RPC version from upstream.

Solution

Upgrade the drupal package.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem since no drupal is included.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.3-4.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-840

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19809

File Name: debian_DSA-840.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2498

DSA: 840