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Conectiva update for thttpd
Secunia Advisory: SA10176
Release Date: 2003-11-10
Popularity: 6,039 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Conectiva Linux 9

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CVE reference:CVE-2001-0892
CVE-2002-0733
CVE-2002-1562


Description:
Conectiva has issued updated packages for thttpd. These fix three older vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct Cross-Site Scripting attacks and gain knowledge of sensitive information.

1) It is possible to read any file even though it is in a password protected directory or marked non world readable. This can only be exploited if the chroot option is enabled.

2) Certain error pages include user input without prior sanitation. This can be exploited to conduct Cross-Site Scripting attacks by requesting a non-existant page and include HTML or script code.

3) It is possible to read arbitrary files via a classic directory traversal attack in the "Host:" header.

Solution:
Apply updated packages.

-- Conectiva Linux 9 --

ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/9/RPMS/thttpd-2.24-22871U90_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/9...d-htpasswd-2.24-22871U90_1cl.i386.rpm

SRPM:
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/9/SRPMS/thttpd-2.24-22871U90_1cl.src.rpm


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