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Debian DSA-1937-1 : gforge - insufficient input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44802

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that gforge, collaborative development tool, is prone to a cross-site scripting attack via the helpname parameter.
Beside fixing this issue, the update also introduces some additional input sanitising. However, there are no known attack vectors.

Solution

Upgrade the gforge packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch12.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problem have been fixed in version 4.7~rc2-7lenny2.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1937

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44802

File Name: debian_DSA-1937.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gforge, 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: 11/21/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3303

CWE: 79

DSA: 1937