Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1560-1 kronolith2 -- insufficient input sanitising

Date Reported:

28 Apr 2008

Affected Packages:

kronolith2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 478121.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1974.

More information:

"The-0utl4w" discovered that the Kronolith, calendar component for the Horde Framework, didn't properly sanitise URL input, leading to a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the add event screen.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.4-1etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.8-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your kronolith2 package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kronolith2/kronolith2_2.1.4-1etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kronolith2/kronolith2_2.1.4-1etch1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kronolith2/kronolith2_2.1.4.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kronolith2/kronolith2_2.1.4-1etch1_all.deb

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