Bug 747599 (CVE-2011-3635) - CVE-2011-3635 empathy: XSS due improper escaping of nicknames in the Adium theme
Summary: CVE-2011-3635 empathy: XSS due improper escaping of nicknames in the Adium theme
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-3635
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 747737
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-20 13:01 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:48 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 07:38:51 UTC
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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]
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