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Debian DSA-1818-1 : gforge - insufficient input sanitising

high Nessus Plugin ID 39441

Synopsis

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

Description

Laurent Almeras and Guillaume Smet have discovered a possible SQL injection vulnerability and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in gforge, a collaborative development tool. Due to insufficient input sanitising, it was possible to inject arbitrary SQL statements and use several parameters to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Solution

Upgrade the gforge packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problem have been fixed in version 4.7~rc2-7lenny1.

The oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch11.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1818

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 39441

File Name: debian_DSA-1818.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/18/2009

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gforge, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4069, CVE-2009-4070

BID: 35424

CWE: 79, 89

DSA: 1818