Ubuntu
dokuwiki package

Information Leakage and Privilege Escalation.

Bug #513493 reported by Richard Hansen
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dokuwiki (Ubuntu)
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Nominated for Intrepid by Richard Hansen
Nominated for Jaunty by Richard Hansen
Nominated for Karmic by Richard Hansen

Bug Description

Binary package hint: dokuwiki

DokuWiki upstream has fixed a vulnerability present in the dokuwiki-0.0.20090214b-2 package:

http://bugs.splitbrain.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=1847

The vulnerability was fixed in version 2009-12-25b, and the fix was backported to 2009-02-14b by Debian (into dokuwiki-0.0.20090214b-3.1, which is available in Lucid).

According to <http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2010-01/17-dokuwiki-security>, exploit code has been seen in the wild.

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Richard Hansen (rhansen)
visibility: private → public
description: updated
Richard Hansen (rhansen)
description: updated
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Since the package referred to in this bug is in universe or multiverse, it is community maintained. If you are able, I suggest posting a debdiff for this issue. When a debdiff is available, members of the security team will review it and publish the package. See the following link for more information: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/UpdateProcedures

Changed in dokuwiki (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Richard Hansen (rhansen) wrote :

Note that Debian upstream has already packaged and published a fixed version, and this version has already been synced and published in lucid. Attaching the debdiff from 0.0.20090214b-2 (karmic) to 0.0.20090214b-3.1 (lucid).

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Richard Hansen (rhansen) wrote :

According to <http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2010-01/17-dokuwiki-security>, the vulnerability was introduced in version 2008-05-05 so I'm nominating Intrepid, Jaunty, and Karmic (the releases with a vulnerable version).

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

This should be fixed in 11.10 and later.

Changed in dokuwiki (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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