[smokeping-users] smokeping security update

[Tobias Oetiker]

Folks,

Yesterday a debian has published a cross site scripting
vulnerability advisory on smokeping. (see below).

On march 4th I have release Smokeping 2.6.9, fixing this and a
bunch of other issues. See

  http://www.smokeping.org/pub/CHANGES

for details.

The latest Smokeping is always available from

  http://www.smokeping.org/pub

cheers
tobi

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:15:24 +0100
From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil at debian.org>
To: debian-security-announce at lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 2651-1] smokeping security update

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2651-1                   security at debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                      Salvatore Bonaccorso
March 20, 2013                         http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : smokeping
Vulnerability  : cross-site scripting vulnerability
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CVE-2012-0790
Debian Bug     : 659899

A cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in smokeping, a
latency logging and graphing system. Input passed to the "displaymode"
parameter was not properly sanitized. An attacker could use this flaw to
execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in
the context of an affected site.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.6-5+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.7-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your smokeping packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce at lists.debian.org
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