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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-23 |
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Severity: Low |
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Title: TikiWiki: XSS vulnerability |
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Date: October 28, 2005 |
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Bugs: #109858 |
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ID: 200510-23 |
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Synopsis |
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TikiWiki is vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. |
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Background |
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TikiWiki is a web-based groupware and content management system (CMS), |
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using PHP, ADOdb and Smarty. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 www-apps/tikiwiki < 1.9.1.1 >= 1.9.1.1 |
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Description |
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Due to improper input validation, TikiWiki can be exploited to perform |
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cross-site scripting attacks. |
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Impact |
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A remote attacker could exploit this to inject and execute malicious |
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script code or to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, |
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potentially compromising the victim's browser. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All TikiWiki users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/tikiwiki-1.9.1.1" |
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Note: Users with the vhosts USE flag set should manually use |
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webapp-config to finalize the update. |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200510-23.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 |