USN-4200-1: Redmine vulnerabilities

26 November 2019

Several security issues were fixed in redmine.

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Releases

Packages

  • redmine - flexible project management web application

Details

It was discovered that Redmine incorrectly handle certain inputs that could
cause textile formatting errors. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a XSS attack. (CVE-2019-17427)

It was discovered that an SQL injection could allow users to access protected
information via a crafted object query. (CVE-2019-18890)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

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

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