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Debian DSA-1523-1 : ikiwiki - XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31629

Synopsis

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

Description

Josh Triplett discovered that ikiwiki did not block JavaScript in URLs, leading to cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-0808, CVE-2008-0809 ).

The old stable distribution (sarge) did not contain an ikiwiki package.

Solution

Upgrade the ikiwiki package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.33.4.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0808

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0809

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1523

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31629

File Name: debian_DSA-1523.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/21/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ikiwiki, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0808, CVE-2008-0809

CWE: 79

DSA: 1523