Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-088 - The clean_html() function, provided by the lxml.html.clean module, did not properly clean HTML input if it included non-printed characters. A remote attacker could use this flaw to serve malicious content to an application using the clean_html() function to process HTML, possibly allowing the attacker to inject malicious code into a website generated by this application.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:088
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : python-lxml
Date : May 15, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0, Enterprise Server 5.0
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Problem Description:
Updated python-lxml packages fix security vulnerability:
The clean_html() function, provided by the lxml.html.clean module,
did not properly clean HTML input if it included non-printed characters
(\x01-\x08). A remote attacker could use this flaw to serve malicious
content to an application using the clean_html() function to process
HTML, possibly allowing the attacker to inject malicious code into
a website generated by this application (CVE-2014-3146).
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3146
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0218.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5:
35048c25adfe1871d3f4967407785225 mes5/i586/python-lxml-2.1.1-1.1mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
2693d5ca44dd8804fa8d5f74b855accd mes5/SRPMS/python-lxml-2.1.1-1.1mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5/X86_64:
7106b307c87f78a0ccbdcd782b1f2bd3 mes5/x86_64/python-lxml-2.1.1-1.1mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
2693d5ca44dd8804fa8d5f74b855accd mes5/SRPMS/python-lxml-2.1.1-1.1mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
30f3bf2c3b6db68cb633e2e87a13cb9b mbs1/x86_64/python-lxml-2.3.3-3.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
8631bd626091dfba02951f2244e62c34 mbs1/SRPMS/python-lxml-2.3.3-3.1.mbs1.src.rpm
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
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