Secunia Security Advisory - Debian has issued an update for man2html. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Debian update for man2html
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46760
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DESCRIPTION:
Debian has issued an update for man2html. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site
scripting attacks.
Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised by the CGI
wrapper before being returned to the user in error messages. This can
be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser.
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the apt-get package manager.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
DSA-2335-1:
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2335
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