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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2414-1 (fex)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

12 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to fex announced via advisory DSA 2414-1.

Insight

Insight

Nicola Fioravanti discovered that F*X, a web service for transferring very large files, is not properly sanitizing input parameters of the fup script. An attacker can use this flaw to conduct reflected cross-site scripting attacks via various script parameters. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 20100208+debian1-1+squeeze2. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 20120215-1.

Solution

Solution

We recommend that you upgrade your fex packages.

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