Debian alert: New analog packages fix cross-site scripting vulnerability

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 125-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
March 28th, 2002  
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Package        : analog
Vulnerability  : cross-site scripting 
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no

Yuji Takahashi discovered a bug in analog which allows a cross-site
scripting type attack.  It is easy for an attacker to insert arbitrary
strings into any web server logfile.  If these strings are then
analysed by analog, they can appear in the report.  By this means an
attacker can introduce arbitrary Javascript code, for example, into an
analog report produced by someone else and read by a third person.
Analog already attempted to encode unsafe characters to avoid this
type of attack, but the conversion was incomplete.

This problem has been fixed in the upstream version 5.22 of analog.
Unfortunately patching the old version of analog in the stable
distribution of Debian instead is a very large job that defeats us.

We recommend that you upgrade your analog package immediately.

wget url
	will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/analog_5.22-0potato1.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 051f6c13d7d1777aeef3c0d050b7ff94
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/analog_5.22-0potato1.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 294d6547c695f8b5f3b62950d7728dcf
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/analog_5.22.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 7548e31ac6b21bec31966f98a789b426

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/analog_5.22-0potato1_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 64becc17b7bf444c989866424805fc7a

  ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/analog_5.22-0potato1_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 3d446034c79efd08854d59906a5e925c

  Intel ia32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/analog_5.22-0potato1_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 6ffd39c59948d83d2a7fd890be846360

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/analog_5.22-0potato1_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 16fc1029300ec44a6b56be54112b2345

  PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/analog_5.22-0potato1_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: dde2890837d9392b5112337ea85f82ad

  Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/analog_5.22-0potato1_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 59ce433a886f8c3ec1d30fbd27bcd2ab


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>

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