Debian DSA-842-1 : egroupware - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19846

Synopsis

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

Description

Stefan Esser discovered a vulnerability in the XML-RPC libraries which are also present in egroupware, a web-based groupware suite, that allows injection of arbitrary PHP code into eval() statements.

Solution

Upgrade the egroupware packages.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain egroupware packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.0.007-2.dfsg-2sarge2.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323350

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-842

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19846

File Name: debian_DSA-842.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:egroupware, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2498

DSA: 842