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Debian DSA-2335-1 : man2html - missing input sanitization

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56715

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

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 (XSS) attacks.

Solution

Upgrade the man2html packages.

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.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/man2html

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2335

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56715

File Name: debian_DSA-2335.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:man2html, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2770

BID: 50566

DSA: 2335