CUPS “kerberos” Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA37308
VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/37308/
DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in CUPS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the “kerberos” parameter to /admin/ is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s browser session in context of an affected site.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.4.2.
SOLUTION: Update to version 1.4.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Aaron Sigel, Apple
CHANGELOG: 2009-11-10: Added CVE reference.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/relnotes.html#010123 http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3367
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