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TITLE:
Cherokee Terminal Escape Sequence Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37933

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DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in Cherokee, which can be exploited by
malicious people to manipulate certain data.

The weakness is caused due to Cherokee logging terminal escape
sequences received in HTTP requests. This can be exploited to pass
control characters to a terminal emulator when a user displays
Cherokee logs via e.g. "cat".

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.99.34 or later.
http://www.cherokee-project.com/downloads.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Giovanni "evilaliv3" Pellerano, Alessandro "jekil" Tanasi, and
Francesco "ascii" Ongaro

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://svn.cherokee-project.com/changeset/3944
http://svn.cherokee-project.com/changeset/3977

http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt

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