Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1829-1 sork-passwd-h3 -- insufficient input sanitising

Date Reported:

11 Jul 2009

Affected Packages:

sork-passwd-h3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 536554.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-2360.

More information:

It was discovered that sork-passwd-h3, a Horde3 module for users to change their password, is prone to a cross-site scripting attack via the backend parameter.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0-2+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0-2+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your sork-passwd-h3 packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sork-passwd-h3/sork-passwd-h3_3.0.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sork-passwd-h3/sork-passwd-h3_3.0-2+etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sork-passwd-h3/sork-passwd-h3_3.0-2+etch1.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sork-passwd-h3/sork-passwd-h3_3.0-2+etch1_all.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sork-passwd-h3/sork-passwd-h3_3.0-2+lenny1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sork-passwd-h3/sork-passwd-h3_3.0.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sork-passwd-h3/sork-passwd-h3_3.0-2+lenny1.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sork-passwd-h3/sork-passwd-h3_3.0-2+lenny1_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.