Directory traversal vulnerability in soup-uri.c in SoupServer in libsoup before 2.35.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2e%2e (encoded dot dot) in a URI.

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates :

  - Directory traversal vulnerability in soup-uri.c in     SoupServer in libsoup before 2.35.4 allows remote     attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2e%2e (encoded     dot dot) in a URI. (CVE-2011-2524)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-09 (Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011)

    Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below.
      Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details.
      FMOD Studio       PEAR Mail       LVM2       GnuCash       xine-lib       Last.fm Scrobbler       WebKitGTK+       shadow tool suite       PEAR       unixODBC       Resource Agents       mrouted       rsync       XML Security Library       xrdb       Vino       OProfile       syslog-ng       sFlow Toolkit       GNOME Display Manager       libsoup       CA Certificates       Gitolite       QtCreator       Racer   Impact :

    A context-dependent attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges,       execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, obtain sensitive       information, or otherwise bypass security restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There are no known workarounds at this time.

This update of libsoup fixes a directory traversal attack that affect application using the library. CVE-2011-2524: CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2011-1102 advisory.

    [2.28.2-1.1]
    - Patch for CVE-2011-2524

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote application server is affected by potential information disclosure related to a remote directory traversal vulnerability. The vendor has released EBF files (patches) for the affected versions.

libsoup is an HTTP client/library implementation for GNOME.

A directory traversal flaw was found in libsoup's SoupServer. If an application used SoupServer to implement an HTTP service, a remote attacker who is able to connect to that service could use this flaw to access any local files accessible to that application via a specially crafted request. (CVE-2011-2524)

All users of libsoup should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. All running applications using libsoup's SoupServer must be restarted for the update to take effect.

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in libsoup :

Directory traversal vulnerability in soup-uri.c in SoupServer in libsoup before 2.35.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a \%2e\%2e (encoded dot dot) in a URI (CVE-2011-2524).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

It was discovered that libsoup, a HTTP library implementation in C, is not properly validating input when processing requests made to SoupServer. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw to access system files via a directory traversal attack.

Fix CVE-2011-2524

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update to 2.34.3, including fix for CVE-2011-2524

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It was discovered that libsoup did not properly validate its input when processing SoupServer requests. A remote attacker could exploit this to access files via directory traversal.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Updated libsoup packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

libsoup is an HTTP client/library implementation for GNOME.

A directory traversal flaw was found in libsoup's SoupServer. If an application used SoupServer to implement an HTTP service, a remote attacker who is able to connect to that service could use this flaw to access any local files accessible to that application via a specially crafted request. (CVE-2011-2524)

All users of libsoup should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. All running applications using libsoup's SoupServer must be restarted for the update to take effect.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
80677	Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : libsoup (cve_2011_2524_directory_traversal)	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	medium
79962	GLSA-201412-09 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
75921	openSUSE Security Update : libsoup-2_4-1 (openSUSE-SU-2011:0875-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
75614	openSUSE Security Update : libsoup-2_4-1 (openSUSE-SU-2011:0875-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
68315	Oracle Linux 6 : libsoup (ELSA-2011-1102)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
6902	EAServer <= 6.3.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Servers	medium
61102	Scientific Linux Security Update : libsoup on SL6.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
58475	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libsoup (MDVSA-2012:036)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
57509	Debian DSA-2369-1 : libsoup2.4 - insufficient input sanitization	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
56297	Fedora 14 : libsoup-2.32.2-2.fc14 (2011-9820)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
55774	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : libsoup (SAT Patch Number 4945)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
55771	Fedora 15 : libsoup-2.34.3-1.fc15 (2011-9763)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
55731	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : libsoup2.4 vulnerability (USN-1181-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
55724	RHEL 6 : libsoup (RHSA-2011:1102)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium

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