Debian DSA-2449-1 : sqlalchemy - missing input sanitization

high Nessus Plugin ID 58728

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that SQLAlchemy, a SQL toolkit and object relational mapper for Python, is not sanitizing input passed to the limit/offset keywords to select() as well as the value passed to select.limit()/offset(). This allows an attacker to perform SQL injection attacks against applications using SQLAlchemy that do not implement their own filtering.

Solution

Upgrade the sqlalchemy packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.3-3+squeeze1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/sqlalchemy

https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2449

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58728

File Name: debian_DSA-2449.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/13/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sqlalchemy, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0805

BID: 52330

DSA: 2449