__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Vulnerability in phpldapadmin [DSA-1057-1] May 15, 2006 17:00 GMT Number Q-198 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpLDAPadmin, a web based interface for administering LDAP servers. PLATFORM: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) DAMAGE: This could allow remote a attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. SOLUTION: Apply current patches. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM - This could allow remote a attacker to ASSESSMENT: inject arbitrary web script or HTML. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/q-198.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1057 CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2006-2016 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start DSA-1057-1 *****] DSA-1057-1 phpldapadmin -- missing input sanitising Date Reported: 15 May 2006 Affected Packages: phpldapadmin Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 365313. In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 17643. In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2016. More information: Several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpLDAPadmin, a web based interface for administering LDAP servers, tha allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain phpldapadmin packages. For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.5-3sarge3. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.8.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your phpldapadmin package. Fixed in: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) Source: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpldapadmin/phpldapadmin_0.9.5- 3sarge3.dsc http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpldapadmin/phpldapadmin_0.9.5- 3sarge3.diff.gz http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpldapadmin/phpldapadmin_ 0.9.5.orig.tar.gz Architecture-independent component: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpldapadmin/phpldapadmin_0.9.5- 3sarge3_all.deb MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory. 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