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[DSA768] DSA-768-1 phpbb2

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-768-1 phpbb2

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been detected in phpBB2, a
fully featured and skinneable flat webforum software, that permits
remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via nested
tags.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain phpbb2.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.13-6sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.13-6sarge1.
We recommend that you upgrade your phpbb2 packages.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-768
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

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