USN-911-1: MoinMoin vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• moin -

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)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10

• python-moinmoin - 1.8.4-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 9.04

• python-moinmoin - 1.8.2-2ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 8.10

• python-moinmoin - 1.7.1-1ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 8.04

• python-moinmoin - 1.5.8-5.1ubuntu2.3

Ubuntu 6.06

• python2.4-moinmoin - 1.5.2-1ubuntu2.5

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

References

• CVE-2010-0668
• CVE-2010-0669
• CVE-2010-0717