USN-458-1: MoinMoin vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Details

A flaw was discovered in MoinMoin's error reporting when using the
AttachFile action. By tricking a user into viewing a crafted MoinMoin
URL, an attacker could execute arbitrary JavaScript as the current
MoinMoin user, possibly exposing the user's authentication information
for the domain where MoinMoin was hosted. (CVE-2007-2423)

Flaws were discovered in MoinMoin's ACL handling for calendars and
includes. Unauthorized users would be able to read pages that would
otherwise be unavailable to them.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.04

• python-moinmoin - 1.5.3-1.1ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 6.10

• python2.4-moinmoin - 1.5.3-1ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 6.06

• python2.4-moinmoin - 1.5.2-1ubuntu2.3

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

References

• CVE-2007-2423
• CVE-2007-2637