From: joey Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:08:56 +0000 (+0000) Subject: security note X-Git-Tag: 1.13~31 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8a5f9f6e0047149040c50db571faac89ab443085;p=ikiwiki.git security note --- diff --git a/doc/security.mdwn b/doc/security.mdwn index e72b3fe2b..4db756e2e 100644 --- a/doc/security.mdwn +++ b/doc/security.mdwn @@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ Anyone with direct commit access can forge "web commit from foo" and make it appear on [[RecentChanges]] like foo committed. One way to avoid this would be to limit web commits to those done by a certian user. +## XML::Parser + +XML::Parser is used by the aggregation plugin, and has some security holes +that are still open in Debian unstable as of this writing. #378411 does not +seem to affect our use, since the data is not encoded as utf-8 at that +point. #378412 could affect us, although it doesn't seem very exploitable. +It has a simple fix, which should be NMUed or something.. + ## other stuff to look at I need to audit the git backend a bit, and have been meaning to