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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2285-1 (mapserver)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to mapserver announced via advisory DSA 2285-1.
Insight
Insight
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mapserver, a CGI-based web framework to publish spatial data and interactive mapping applications. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2011-2703 Several instances of insufficient escaping of user input, leading to SQL injection attacks via OGC filter encoding (in WMS, WFS, and SOS filters). CVE-2011-2704 Missing length checks in the processing of OGC filter encoding that can lead to stack-based buffer overflows and the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 5.0.3-3+lenny7. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 5.6.5-2+squeeze2. For the testing (squeeze) and unstable (sid) distributions, this problem will be fixed soon.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your mapserver packages.