Bug 747599 (CVE-2011-3635)

Summary:	CVE-2011-3635 empathy: XSS due improper escaping of nicknames in the Adium theme
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bdpepple, security-response-team, vdanen
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-10-20 13:01:56 UTC

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the Adium theme for Empathy, an instant messaging client for GNOME, due to incorrect sanitization of the user nickname / alias, when new user joined a room. A remote attacker, valid Empathy user with specially-crafted nickname could send a message to particular IRC room, leading to arbitrary HTML or webscript execution, when the nickname was displayed by the theme.

Upstream bug report:
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662035

Relevant upstream patch:
[2] http://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/commit/?id=739aca418457de752be13721218aaebc74bd9d36

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-10-20 13:03:03 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the empathy package, as shipped with Fedora release of 14 and 15.

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2011-10-20 21:27:55 UTC

Created empathy tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 747737]