USN-7318-1: SPIP vulnerabilities

4 March 2025

Several security issues were fixed in spip.

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Releases

Packages

  • spip - website engine for publishing

Details

It was discovered that svg-sanitizer, vendored in SPIP, did not properly
sanitize SVG/XML content. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
perform cross site scripting. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.10.
(CVE-2022-23638)

It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross site
scripting. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-28959)

It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform PHP injection
attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-28960)

It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL injection
attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-28961)

It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A
remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-37155)

It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL injection
attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2023-24258)

It was discovered that SPIP did not properly handle serialization under
certain circumstances. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-27372)

It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize HTTP requests. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2024-8517)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 24.10
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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