This update of libsoup fixes a directory traversal attack that affect application using the library. CVE-2011-2524: CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Update to 2.34.3, including fix for CVE-2011-2524

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Fix CVE-2011-2524

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

libsoup is an HTTP client/library implementation for GNOME.

A directory traversal flaw was found in libsoup's SoupServer. If an application used SoupServer to implement an HTTP service, a remote attacker who is able to connect to that service could use this flaw to access any local files accessible to that application via a specially crafted request. (CVE-2011-2524)

All users of libsoup should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. All running applications using libsoup's SoupServer must be restarted for the update to take effect.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-09 (Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011)

    Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below.
      Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details.
      FMOD Studio       PEAR Mail       LVM2       GnuCash       xine-lib       Last.fm Scrobbler       WebKitGTK+       shadow tool suite       PEAR       unixODBC       Resource Agents       mrouted       rsync       XML Security Library       xrdb       Vino       OProfile       syslog-ng       sFlow Toolkit       GNOME Display Manager       libsoup       CA Certificates       Gitolite       QtCreator       Racer   Impact :

    A context-dependent attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges,       execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, obtain sensitive       information, or otherwise bypass security restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There are no known workarounds at this time.

It was discovered that libsoup, a HTTP library implementation in C, is not properly validating input when processing requests made to SoupServer. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw to access system files via a directory traversal attack.

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates :

  - Directory traversal vulnerability in soup-uri.c in     SoupServer in libsoup before 2.35.4 allows remote     attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2e%2e (encoded     dot dot) in a URI. (CVE-2011-2524)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
75614	openSUSE Security Update : libsoup-2_4-1 (openSUSE-SU-2011:0875-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/13/2014	1/14/2021	medium
55771	Fedora 15 : libsoup-2.34.3-1.fc15 (2011-9763)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	8/8/2011	1/11/2021	medium
56297	Fedora 14 : libsoup-2.32.2-2.fc14 (2011-9820)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	9/26/2011	1/11/2021	medium
61102	Scientific Linux Security Update : libsoup on SL6.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	8/1/2012	1/14/2021	medium
79962	GLSA-201412-09 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	12/15/2014	2/28/2025	critical
57509	Debian DSA-2369-1 : libsoup2.4 - insufficient input sanitization	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	1/12/2012	1/11/2021	medium
80677	Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : libsoup (cve_2011_2524_directory_traversal)	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	1/19/2015	1/14/2021	medium

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