Executive Summary
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| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | man2html security update |
| Informations | |||
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| Name | DSA-2335 | First vendor Publication | 2011-11-05 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2011-11-05 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | |||
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| Cvss Base Score | 4.3 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 8.6 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Tim Starling discovered that the Debian-native CGI wrapper for man2html, a program to convert UNIX man pages to HTML, is not properly escaping user-supplied input when displaying various error messages. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6f-3+lenny1. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6f+repack-1+squeeze1. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6g-6. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6g-6. We recommend that you upgrade your man2html packages. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2335 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-79 | Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15176 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15176 | ||
| Title: | DSA-2335-1 man2html -- missing input sanitisation | ||
| Description: | Tim Starling discovered that the Debian-native CGI wrapper for man2html, a program to convert UNIX man pages to HTML, is not properly escaping user-supplied input when displaying various error messages. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | DSA-2335-1 CVE-2011-2770 | Version: | 5 |
| Platform(s): | Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0 | Product(s): | man2html |
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 76912 | man2html CGI Wrapper Error Message Unspecified XSS |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
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| 2011-11-07 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-2335.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-02-17 11:30:32 |
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