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Debian Security Advisory DSA 768-1 (phpbb2)

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

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to phpbb2 announced via advisory DSA 768-1. A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been detected in phpBB2, a fully featured and skinneable flat webforum software, that allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via nested tags. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain phpbb2.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.13-6sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.13-6sarge1. We recommend that you upgrade your phpbb2 packages. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20768-1

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