Bug 399561 (CVE-2007-6110)

Summary: CVE-2007-6110 htdig htsearch XSS vulnerability
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: atkac, kreilly
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-6110
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Bug Depends On: 401111, 401121, 401131, 401141    
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Patch from Michael Skibbe (reporter of the issue) none

Description Tomas Hoger 2007-11-26 15:40:19 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-6110 to the following vulnerability:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in htsearch in htdig 3.2.0b6
allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the
sort parameter.

References:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200709251310.55835.mskibbe%40suse.de&forum_name=htdig-dev
Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2007-11-28 09:03:35 UTC 
Created attachment 271081 [details]
Patch from Michael Skibbe (reporter of the issue)

Replaces error message:

  No such sort method: `<user supplied input here>'

with simple:

  invalid sort method
Comment 6 Adam Tkac 2007-11-28 09:53:55 UTC 
Patch looks fine
Comment 9 Tomas Hoger 2007-12-20 11:43:56 UTC 
Fixed in all affected products:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1095.html

Fedora
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/FEDORA-2007-3907
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2007-3958