1.8

Upgrading LedgerSMB 1.8.x to 1.8.y

Submitted by ehu on

There are two steps to upgrading a LedgerSMB 1.8.x installation to 1.8.y (x smaller than y):

  1. Upgrade the software
  2. Upgrade the company database

The second step has to be executed for each company database that's set up.

Upgrade the software

The steps to upgrade the software differ between Docker or tarball (from source) installations.

Upgrading Docker installations

In case the installation was created using the docker-compose infrastructure provided by the project, the upgrade should be as simple as running

Security advisory for CVE-2021-3693 (Cross site scripting)

Submitted by ehu on

DOM cross-site scripting of authenticated users in LedgerSMB

Summary

LedgerSMB does not check the origin of HTML fragments merged into the browser's DOM.  By sending a specially crafted URL to an authenticated user, this flaw can be abused for remote code execution and information disclosure.


Known vulnerable

  All of:

  - 1.5.0 upto 1.5.30 (including)
  - 1.6.0 upto 1.6.33 (including)
  - 1.7.0 upto 1.7.32 (including)
  - 1.8.0 upto 1.8.17 (including)

Security advisory for CVE-2021-3694 (Cross site scripting)

Submitted by ehu on

Reflected cross-site scripting of authenticated users in LedgerSMB

Summary

LedgerSMB does not sufficiently HTML-encode error messages sent to the browser.  By sending a specially crafted URL to an authenticated user, this flaw can be abused for remote code execution and information disclosure.

Known vulnerable

  All of:

Hill Holdings Ltd - Barbados

Submitted by ehu on

Hill Holdings Ltd is  small company in Barbados, in the sunny Caribbean.  We are in the vacation rentals business, and we use LedgerSMB's  General Ledger module to keep track of our income and expenses.

From a technical point of view, I found LedgerSMB easy to install.  Upgrades and fixes come out frequently, and it is very easy to upgrade via a small Bash script that I wrote myself.

1.8.17 Released

Submitted by LedgerSMB_Team on

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new
version of its open source ERP and accounting application.
This release contains the following fixes and improvements:

Changelog for 1.8.17

1.8.16 Released

Submitted by LedgerSMB_Team on

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new
version of its open source ERP and accounting application.
This release contains the following fixes and improvements:

Changelog for 1.8.16

1.8.15 Released

Submitted by LedgerSMB_Team on

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new
version of its open source ERP and accounting application.
This release contains the following fixes and improvements:

Changelog for 1.8.15

1.8.14 Released

Submitted by LedgerSMB_Team on

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new
version of its open source ERP and accounting application.
This release contains the following fixes and improvements:

Changelog for 1.8.14

  • Follow-up (fix) to upgrades blocked by files attached to transactions

For installation instructions and system requirements, see
https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.8.14/README.md

1.8.13 Released

Submitted by LedgerSMB_Team on

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new
version of its open source ERP and accounting application.
This release contains the following fixes and improvements:

Changelog for 1.8.13

Subscribe to 1.8