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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200601-12 |
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Severity: Low |
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Title: Trac: Cross-site scripting vulnerability |
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Date: January 26, 2006 |
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Bugs: #118302 |
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ID: 200601-12 |
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Synopsis |
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Trac is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack that could allow |
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arbitrary JavaScript code execution. |
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Background |
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Trac is a minimalistic web-based project management, wiki and bug |
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tracking system including a Subversion interface. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 www-apps/trac < 0.9.3 >= 0.9.3 |
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Description |
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Christophe Truc discovered that Trac fails to properly sanitize input |
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passed in the URL. |
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Impact |
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A remote attacker could exploit this to inject and execute malicious |
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script code or to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, |
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potentially compromising the victim's browser. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All Trac users should upgrade to the latest available version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/trac-0.9.3" |
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Note: Users with the vhosts USE flag set should manually use |
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webapp-config to finalize the update. |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2005-4305 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4305 |
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[ 2 ] Trac Changelog |
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http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/ChangeLog#a0.9.3 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200601-12.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 |