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Debian DSA-1475-1 : gforge - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 30067

Synopsis

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

Description

Jose Ramon Palanco discovered that a cross site scripting vulnerability in GForge, a collaborative development tool, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the context of a logged in user's session.

Solution

Upgrade the gforge package.

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

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch5.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1475

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 30067

File Name: debian_DSA-1475.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/27/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/26/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0176

DSA: 1475