Debian DSA-1324-1 : hiki - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25629

Synopsis

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

Description

Kazuhiro Nishiyama found a vulnerability in hiki, a Wiki engine written in Ruby, which could allow a remote attacker to delete arbitrary files which are writable to the Hiki user, via a specially crafted session parameter.

Solution

Upgrade the hiki package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.6-1etch1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430691

https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1324

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25629

File Name: debian_DSA-1324.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:hiki, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2836

CWE: 22

DSA: 1324