Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for boa. This fixes a weakness, which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain data.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for boa
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39775
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39775/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for boa. This fixes a weakness, which can
be exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain data.
The weakness is caused due to terminal escape sequences received in
HTTP requests being logged. This can be exploited to pass control
characters to a terminal emulator when a user displays a log.
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update boa").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2010-7645:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041274.html
FEDORA-2010-7640:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041271.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt
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