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Secunia Security Advisory 26714

Secunia Security Advisory 26714
Posted Sep 7, 2007
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Sophos Anti-Virus, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

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Secunia Security Advisory 26714

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TITLE:
Sophos Anti-Virus Archive Filename Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26714

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26714/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/12449/
Sophos Anti-Virus 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/15621/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sophos Anti-Virus, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when
logging the results of a detected malware in an archive with a
specially crafted filename. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary
HTML and script code, which will be executed when printing the
resulting logfile.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 6.x and 7.0.0.

SOLUTION:
Update to versions 6.5.8 or later, or 7.0.1 or later.

The vendor also recommends users of version 6.x to upgrade to version
7.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Michael Jordon, Context Information Security Ltd

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/29150.html

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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