A security flaw was found in the way mod_security, a security module for Apache HTTP server, handled situations in which both of 'Content:Disposition: attachment' and 'Content-Type: multipart' were present in HTTP headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a specially-crafted HTML document. References: [1] http://mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-security/m2/branches/2.6.x/CHANGES [2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/2 [3] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768293 [4] https://secunia.com/advisories/49576/ Relevant upstream patch: [5] http://mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-security?view=revision&revision=1918
This issue affects the versions of the mod_security package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15, 16, and 17. Please schedule an update. -- This issue affects the versions of the mod_security package, as shipped with Fedora EPEL 5 and 6. Please schedule an update.
Created mod_security tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 834549] Affects: epel-all [bug 834550]
As per http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/2, this issue was [partially] fixed in 2009, and separate CVE was assigned to it. For search purposes: CVE-2009-5031 https://www.modsecurity.org/fisheye/browse/modsecurity/m2/branches/2.5.x/apache2/msc_multipart.c?r2=1419&r1=1366