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TITLE:
LXR Cross Referencer Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38117

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38117/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in LXR Cross Referencer, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed to the "i" parameter in /ident is not properly sanitised
before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context
of an affected site.

NOTE: Other parameters may also be affected.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 0.9.6. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences in a web proxy.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Dan Rosenberg in an LXR bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=E1NS2s4-0001PE-F2%403bkjzd1.ch3.sourceforge.com

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