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TITLE:
Debian info2www Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14997

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14997/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid
http://secunia.com/product/530/
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
http://secunia.com/product/143/

DESCRIPTION:
Debian has issued an update for info2www. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site
scripting attacks.

Input passed to info2www is not properly sanitised before being
returned to users. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML
and script code in a user's browser session in context of a
vulnerable site by tricking the user into following a specially
crafted link or visit a malicious web site.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

-- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody --

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/info2www/info2www_1.2.2.9-20woody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 600 68a3d62f9ff13abaf1cd2b2ca479c8e9
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/info2www/info2www_1.2.2.9-20woody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 27216 d4bf5b04bfcaa304bbe18969346a281e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/info2www/info2www_1.2.2.9.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 12407 2d79050502b938fae36d6d38e1d5084b

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/info2www/info2www_1.2.2.9-20woody1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 34006 93914a2ed64150b8682e8e419f7878ed

-- Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid --

Fixed in version 1.2.2.9-23.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Nicolas Gregoire

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-711

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