Bug 1597583 (CVE-2018-0499)

Summary:	CVE-2018-0499 xapian-core: Cross-site-scripting in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	adel.gadllah, denis.arnaud_fedora, john.j5live, pbrobinson, python-maint, sebastian
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	xapian-core 1.4.6	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2019-06-10 10:31:32 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1597585, 1597586, 1597587
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-07-03 09:23:55 UTC

A cross-site scripting vulnerability was found in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc in Xapian xapian-core before 1.4.6 due to incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet().

References:

https://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2018-July/009652.html
https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/SecurityFixes/2018-07-02

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-07-03 09:24:50 UTC

Created xapian-core tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1597586]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1597585]