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Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 15:28:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: lxr

----- "Dan Rosenberg" <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com> wrote:

> Sorry for not making this explicitly clear.  There are three issues:
> 
> 1.  XSS in the ident parameter, as described in CVE-2009-4497.
> 
> 2.  XSS that is reflected via the search results page after issuing a
> search.
> 
> 3.  XSS that is reflected via the <title> tag on the search page, as
> described in Raphael's original e-mail a few days ago, which Josh just
> assigned CVE-2010-1448.
> 
> Bugs 1 and 2 were fixed simultaneously, as indicated in the 2010-01-05
> changelog entry for LXR:
> 
> 2010-01-05 18:00  mbox
> 
> 	* ident, search: Fix for CVE-2009-4497 from Dan Rosenberg
> 
> 	  Avoid a XSS vulnerability
> 
> Bug 3 was fixed a few days later on 2010-01-15, as indicated by:
> 
> 2010-01-15 23:23  mbox
> 
> 	* lib/LXR/Common.pm: Fix XSS exploit in title string
> 
> So, while my original intent at the time of disclosure was to have a
> single CVE identifier assigned to cover all three of these issues, that
> obviously did not happen.  As it stands, bugs 1 and 3 have their own CVE
> identifiers, and bug 2 remains unassigned.
> 

Sorry this took so long.

CVE-2010-1625 lxr lib/LXR/Common.pm: Fix XSS exploit in title string

The diff is here:
http://lxr.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lxr/lxr/lib/LXR/Common.pm?r1=1.63&r2=1.64

Thanks

-- 
    JB

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