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Debian DSA-1297-1 : gforge-plugin-scmcvs - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25301

Synopsis

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

Description

Bernhard R. Link discovered that the CVS browsing interface of Gforge, a collaborative development tool, performs insufficient escaping of URLs, which allows the execution of arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the www-data user.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem.

Solution

Upgrade the gforge-plugin-scmcvs package.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-5etch1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1297

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25301

File Name: debian_DSA-1297.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/25/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0246

DSA: 1297