Bug 1597583 (CVE-2018-0499) - CVE-2018-0499 xapian-core: Cross-site-scripting in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc
Summary: CVE-2018-0499 xapian-core: Cross-site-scripting in queryparser/termgenerator_...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-0499
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: 1597585 1597586 1597587
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-07-03 09:23 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:43 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: xapian-core 1.4.6
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:31:32 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-07-03 09:23:55 UTC 
A cross-site scripting vulnerability was found in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc in Xapian xapian-core before 1.4.6 due to incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet().

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https://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2018-July/009652.html
https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/SecurityFixes/2018-07-02
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-07-03 09:24:50 UTC 
Created xapian-core tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1597586]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1597585]
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