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Debian DSA-1559-1 : phpgedview - insufficient input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 32060

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that phpGedView, an application to provide online access to genealogical data, performed insufficient input sanitising on some parameters, making it vulnerable to cross site scripting.

Solution

Upgrade the phpgedview package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.2.dfsg-3.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=443901

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1559

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 32060

File Name: debian_DSA-1559.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5051

CWE: 79

DSA: 1559