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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2335-1 man2html -- missing input sanitization

Date Reported:

05 Nov 2011

Affected Packages:

man2html

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-2770.

More information:

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.

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.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6g-6.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6g-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your man2html packages.