__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Mantis Vulnerability [-Debian Security Advisory DSA-1467-1] January 22, 2008 21:00 GMT Number S-129 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mantis, a web based bug tracking system. PLATFORM: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) DAMAGE: Allow a remote attacker to insert malicious HTML or web script into Mantis web pages. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is LOW. Multiple cross site scripting issues allowed a ASSESSMENT: remote attacker to insert malicious HTML or web script into Mantis web pages. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-129.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1467 CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2006-6574 CVE-2007-6611 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start -Debian Security Advisory DSA-1467-1 *****] Debian Security Advisory DSA-1467-1 mantis -- several vulnerabilities Date Reported: 19 Jan 2008 Affected Packages: mantis Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 402802, Bug 458377. In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-6574, CVE-2007-6611. More information: Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mantis, a web based bug tracking system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2006-6574 Custom fields were not appropriately protected by per-item access control, allowing for sensitive data to be published. CVE-2007-6611 Multiple cross site scripting issues allowed a remote attacker to insert malicious HTML or web script into Mantis web pages. The stable distribution (etch) is not affected by these problems. For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in version 0.19.2-5sarge5. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.8-4. We recommend that you upgrade your mantis package. Fixed in: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) Source: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mantis/mantis_0.19.2-5sarge5.dsc http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mantis/mantis_0.19.2.orig.tar.gz http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mantis/mantis_0.19.2-5sarge5.diff.gz Architecture-independent component: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mantis/mantis_0.19.2-5sarge5_all.deb MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory. [***** End -Debian Security Advisory DSA-1467-1 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Debian for the information contained in this bulletin. _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. CIAC is also a founding member of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, a global organization established to foster cooperation and coordination among computer security teams worldwide. CIAC services are available to DOE, DOE contractors, and the NIH. 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