GLSA 201209-16: SQLAlchemy: SQL injection

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Severity:	normal
Title:	SQLAlchemy: SQL injection
Date:	09/26/2012
Bugs:	#407437
ID:	201209-16

Synopsis

An input sanitation flaw in SQLAlchemy allows remote attacker to conduct SQL injection.

Background

SQLAlchemy is a Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
dev-python/sqlalchemy	< 0.7.4	>= 0.7.4	All supported architectures

Description

SQLAlchemy does not properly sanitize input passed from the “limit” and “offset” keywords to the select() function before using it in an SQL query.

Impact

A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary SQL statements.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All SQLAlchemy users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/sqlalchemy-0.7.4"

References

CVE-2012-0805

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-16.xml

Concerns?

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