GLSA 200606-28: Horde Web Application Framework: XSS vulnerability

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Severity:	low
Title:	Horde Web Application Framework: XSS vulnerability
Date:	06/29/2006
Bugs:	#136830
ID:	200606-28

Synopsis

The Horde Web Application Framework is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Background

The Horde Web Application Framework is a general-purpose web application framework written in PHP, providing classes for handling preferences, compression, browser detection, connection tracking, MIME, and more.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-apps/horde	< 3.1.1-r1	>= 3.1.1-r1	All supported architectures

Description

Michael Marek discovered that the Horde Web Application Framework performs insufficient input sanitizing.

Impact

An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary scripts running in the context of the victim's browser.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All horde users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/horde-3.1.1-r1"

References

CVE-2006-2195

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200606-28.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.