Debian DSA-1882-1 : xapian-omega - missing input sanitization

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44747

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that xapian-omega, a CGI interface for searching xapian databases, is not properly escaping user-supplied input when printing exceptions. An attacker can use this to conduct cross-site scripting attacks via crafted search queries resulting in an exception and steal potentially sensitive data from web applications running on the same domain or embedding the search engine into a website.

Solution

Upgrade the xapian-omega packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.9-1+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.7-3+lenny1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44747

File Name: debian_DSA-1882.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:xapian-omega, 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

Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2947

CWE: 79

DSA: 1882

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