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Debian DSA-1951-1 : firefox-sage - insufficient input sanitising

high Nessus Plugin ID 44816

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that firefox-sage, a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader for Firefox, does not sanitise the RSS feed information correctly, which makes it prone to a cross-site scripting and a cross-domain scripting attack.

Solution

Upgrade the firefox-sage packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.6-4etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.2-0.1+lenny1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559267

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1951

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 44816

File Name: debian_DSA-1951.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

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: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:firefox-sage, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4102

CWE: 20

DSA: 1951