USN-911-1: MoinMoin vulnerabilities

Publication date

11 March 2010

Overview

MoinMoin vulnerabilities


Packages

Details

It was discovered that several wiki actions and preference settings in
MoinMoin were not protected from cross-site request forgery (CSRF). If an
authenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while
logged into MoinMoin, a remote attacker could change the user’s
configuration or wiki content. (CVE-2010-0668, CVE-2010-0717)

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input when
processing user preferences. An attacker could enter malicious content
which when viewed by a user, could render in unexpected ways.
(CVE-2010-0669)

It was discovered that several wiki actions and preference settings in
MoinMoin were not protected from cross-site request forgery (CSRF). If an
authenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while
logged into MoinMoin, a remote attacker could change the user’s
configuration or wiki content. (CVE-2010-0668, CVE-2010-0717)

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input when
processing user preferences. An attacker could enter malicious content
which when viewed by a user, could render in unexpected ways.
(CVE-2010-0669)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
9.10 karmic python-moinmoin –  1.8.4-1ubuntu1.1
9.04 jaunty python-moinmoin –  1.8.2-2ubuntu2.2
8.10 intrepid python-moinmoin –  1.7.1-1ubuntu1.3
8.04 hardy python-moinmoin –  1.5.8-5.1ubuntu2.3
6.06 dapper python2.4-moinmoin –  1.5.2-1ubuntu2.5

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