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Debian DSA-2158-1 : cgiirc - XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51945

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Synopsis

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

Description

Michael Brooks (Sitewatch) discovered a reflective XSS flaw in CGI:IRC, a web-based IRC client, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary JavaScript.

Solution

Upgrade the cgiirc packages.

For the old-stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.9-3lenny1.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), and unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed shortly.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2158

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51945

File Name: debian_DSA-2158.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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:cgiirc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0050

DSA: 2158