Debian DSA-1875-1 : ikiwiki - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44740

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Synopsis

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

Description

Josh Triplett discovered that the blacklist for potentially harmful TeX code of the teximg module of the Ikiwiki wiki compiler was incomplete, resulting in information disclosure.

Solution

Upgrade the ikiwiki package.

The old stable distribution (etch) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.53.4.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1875

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44740

File Name: debian_DSA-1875.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: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ikiwiki, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2944

BID: 36181

DSA: 1875