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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2011.1109 man2html security update 7 November 2011 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: man2hhtml Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 5 Debian GNU/Linux 6 Impact/Access: Cross-site Scripting -- Remote/Unauthenticated Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2011-2770 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2335 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2335-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde November 5th, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : man2hhtml Vulnerability : missing input sanitization Problem type : remote Debian-specific: yes CVE ID : CVE-2011-2770 Tim Starling discovered that the Debian-native CGI wrapper for man2html, a program to convert UNIX man pages to HTML, is not properly escaping user-supplied input when displaying various error messages. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6f-3+lenny1. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6f+repack-1+squeeze1. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6g-6. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6g-6. We recommend that you upgrade your man2html packages. 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