Bug 839976 (CVE-2012-3382) - CVE-2012-3382 mono: XSS in ProcessRequest function
Summary: CVE-2012-3382 mono: XSS in ProcessRequest function
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-3382
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 839978 839979
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-07-13 10:54 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-10-19 21:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-19 21:55:23 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-07-13 10:54:51 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-3382 to the following vulnerability:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the ProcessRequest function in mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web/HttpForbiddenHandler.cs in Mono 2.10.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a file with a crafted name and a forbidden extension, which is not properly handled in an error message.

References:
[1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/06/11
[2] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769799

Upstream patch:
[3] https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/d16d4623edb210635bec3ca3786481b82cde25a2
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-07-13 10:57:13 UTC 
This issue affects the (current) versions of the mono package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16 and 17. Please schedule an update.

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This issue affects the (current) version of the mono package, as shipped with Fedora EPEL 6. Please schedule an update.

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This issue did NOT affect the (current) version of the mono package, as shipped with Fedora EPEL 5, as the ProcessRequest() routine implementation in this version did NOT introduce the vulnerable code part yet.
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-07-13 10:57:59 UTC 
Created mono tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 839978]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 839979]
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