Bug 986521 (CVE-2013-4158) - CVE-2013-4158 smokeping: XSS flaw (incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0790)
Summary: CVE-2013-4158 smokeping: XSS flaw (incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0790)
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2013-4158
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 986522
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-07-20 06:33 UTC by Kurt Seifried
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:06 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 11:00:54 UTC
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Description Kurt Seifried 2013-07-20 06:33:14 UTC
Seth Arnold (seth.arnold) reports:

Hello Kurt, Steve, all,

I am requesting a 2012 CVE for an incomplete security fix in smokeping,
fixed in version 2.6.9.

CVE-2012-0790 was assigned to smokeping for XSS flaws.

The fix for CVE-2012-0790 in smokeping 2.6.7 was incomplete. The
filtering used this blacklist:

    $mode =~ s/[<>&%]/./g;

The version in 2.6.9 uses the following blacklist:

    my $xssBadRx = qr/[<>%&'";]/;

(', ", and ; have been added. When it is used, blacklist chars are now
turned to _ rather than . ) The 2.6.9 version prevents escaping <html
attribute="..."> via " characters.

The incomplete fix is in 2.6.7 and 2.6.8.

This flaw was discovered by Florian Weimer [1] in 2012 and brought to
our attention [2] in 2013.

The upstream CHANGES [3] file includes, in part:

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2013/03/04 - released version 2.6.9

*  be more careful about preventing xss attacks, re http://bugs.debian.org/659899 (tobi)

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I have not found an up-to-date online browsable source.

Thanks

1: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659899#37
2: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smokeping/+bug/1203061
3: http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/CHANGES

Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2013-07-20 06:33:55 UTC
Created smokeping tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 986522]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2013-08-15 02:45:10 UTC
smokeping-2.6.9-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-08-15 02:49:17 UTC
smokeping-2.6.9-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 11:00:54 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.


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