Ubuntu 996-1: Mako vulnerability
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==========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-996-1 September 29, 2010 mako vulnerability CVE-2010-2480 ========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: python-mako 0.2.5-2ubuntu1.3 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. Details follow: It was discovered that Mako incorrectly filtered single-quote characters when performing html filtering. An attacker could utilize this to perform cross-site scripting attacks. Updated packages for Ubuntu 10.04: Source archives: Size/MD5: 5622 9cc948447247736d5d37f2ada66f2e59 Size/MD5: 1452 fd281df3c78bc4ca4fb2f1a96a5cf9c9 Size/MD5: 228192 d8ca783630dc5e93970a2075532fa643 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5: 100918 0df79d97dbd23990c0bb3dbd85e8c5f0