GLSA 200411-35: phpWebSite: HTTP response splitting vulnerability

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Severity:	low
Title:	phpWebSite: HTTP response splitting vulnerability
Date:	11/26/2004
Bugs:	#71502
ID:	200411-35

Synopsis

phpWebSite is vulnerable to possible HTTP response splitting attacks.

Background

phpWebSite is a web site content management system.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-apps/phpwebsite	< 0.9.3_p4-r2	>= 0.9.3_p4-r2	All supported architectures

Description

Due to lack of proper input validation, phpWebSite has been found to be vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks.

Impact

A malicious user could inject arbitrary response data, leading to content spoofing, web cache poisoning and other cross-site scripting or HTTP response splitting attacks. This could result in compromising the victim's data or browser.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All phpWebSite users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/phpwebsite-0.9.3_p4-r2"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200411-35.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.