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Debian DSA-1242-1 : elog - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 23947

Synopsis

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

Description

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in elog, a web-based electronic logbook, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

 - CVE-2006-5063 Tilman Koschnick discovered that log entry editing in HTML is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This update disables the vulnerable code.

 - CVE-2006-5790 Ulf Harnhammar of the Debian Security Audit Project discovered several format string vulnerabilities in elog, which may lead to execution of arbitrary code.

 - CVE-2006-5791 Ulf Harnhammar of the Debian Security Audit Project discovered cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the creation of new logbook entries.

 - CVE-2006-6318 Jayesh KS and Arun Kethipelly of OS2A discovered that elog performs insufficient error handling in config file parsing, which may lead to denial of service through a NULL pointer dereference.

Solution

Upgrade the elog package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.5.7+r1558-4+sarge3.

The upcoming stable distribution (etch) will no longer include elog.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-5063

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-5790

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-5791

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-6318

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1242

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 23947

File Name: debian_DSA-1242.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/30/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/27/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5063, CVE-2006-5790, CVE-2006-5791, CVE-2006-6318

DSA: 1242