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Debian DSA-1528-1 : serendipity - insufficient input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31662

Synopsis

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

Description

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

Solution

Upgrade the serendipity package.

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

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

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469667

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1528

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31662

File Name: debian_DSA-1528.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6205, CVE-2008-0124, CVE-2008-1476

BID: 28298

CWE: 79

DSA: 1528