Bug 748425 (CVE-2011-4170)

Summary:	CVE-2011-4170 empathy: XSS due improper escaping of nicknames in the /me event 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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Version:	unspecified	CC:	bdpepple
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-10-24 12:27:09 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-4170 to
the following vulnerability:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme_adium_append_message function in empathy-theme-adium.c in the Adium theme in libempathy-gtk in Empathy 3.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted alias (aka nickname) in a /me event, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3635.

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

Original mention of the deficiency:
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662035#c13

Relevant upstream patch:
[3] http://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/commit/?id=15a4eec2f156c4f60398a9d842279203f475ed89

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-10-24 12:28:16 UTC

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

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-10-24 12:31:05 UTC

Created empathy tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 747737]