An input sanitation problem has been found in upgrade functions of movabletype-opensource, a web-based publishing platform. Using carefully crafted requests to the mt-upgrade.cgi file, it would be possible to inject OS command and SQL queries.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.8+dfsg-0+squeeze3. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 5.1.2+dfsg-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 5.1.2+dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your movabletype-opensource packages.

MovableType is a popular blogging, or web publishing platform. It provides an easy to use web interface to publishing blogs and contains many features and plugins.

movabletype-opensource on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2611.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25