Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1913-1 bugzilla -- SQL injection vulnerability

Date Reported:

17 Oct 2009

Affected Packages:

bugzilla

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 547132.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-3165.

More information:

Max Kanat-Alexander, Bradley Baetz, and Frédéric Buclin discovered an SQL injection vulnerability in the Bug.create WebService function in Bugzilla, a web-based bug tracking system, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands.

The oldstable distribution (etch) isn't affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.4.1-2+lenny2.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your bugzilla packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bugzilla/bugzilla_3.0.4.1-2+lenny2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bugzilla/bugzilla_3.0.4.1-2+lenny2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bugzilla/bugzilla_3.0.4.1.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bugzilla/bugzilla3_3.0.4.1-2+lenny2_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bugzilla/bugzilla3-doc_3.0.4.1-2+lenny2_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.