Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lib/mhtxthtml.pl in MHonArc 2.6.16 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a malformed start tag and end tag for a SCRIPT element, as demonstrated by <scr<body>ipt> and </scr<body>ipt> sequences.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | mhonarc | 2.6.18-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | mhonarc | 2.6.18-1 | — |
| Debian 12 | mhonarc | 2.6.18-1 | — |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664718
- [oss-security] 20101221 Re: CVE Request -- MHonArc: Improper escaping of certain HTML sequences (XSS) mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20101221 Re: CVE Request -- MHonArc: Improper escaping of certain HTML sequences (XSS) mailing-list
- ADV-2010-3344 vdb-entry
- ADV-2011-0067 vdb-entry
- 45528 vdb-entry
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607693
- 42694 third-party-advisory
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?32013
- [oss-security] 20101221 Re: CVE Request -- MHonArc: Improper escaping of certain HTML sequences (XSS) mailing-list
- MDVSA-2011:003 vendor-advisory
- [mhonarc-dev] 20101230 [bug #32013] CVE-2010-4524: Improper escaping of certain HTML sequences (XSS) mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20101221 CVE Request -- MHonArc: Improper escaping of certain HTML sequences (XSS) mailing-list