Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1279-1 webcalendar -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

22 Apr 2007

Affected Packages:

webcalendar

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-6669.

More information:

It was discovered that WebCalendar, a PHP-based calendar application, performs insufficient sanitising in the exports handler, which allows injection of web script.

For the old stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.45-4sarge7.

The stable distribution (etch) no longer contains WebCalendar packages.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.5-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your webcalendar package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge7.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge7.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webcalendar/webcalendar_0.9.45-4sarge7_all.deb

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