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FreeBSD : drupal -- XSS (utf8) (6f736456-c060-11dc-982e-001372fd0af2)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 29951
Synopsis
The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.Description
The Drupal Project reports :When outputting plaintext Drupal strips potentially dangerous HTML tags and attributes from HTML, and escapes characters which have a special meaning in HTML. This output filtering secures the site against cross site scripting attacks via user input.
Certain byte sequences that are invalid in the UTF8 specification are not handled properly by Internet Explorer 6 and may lead it to see a multibyte start character where none is present. Internet Explorer 6 then consumes a number of subsequent UTF-8 characters. This may lead to unsafe attributes that were outside a tag for the filter to appear inside a tag for Internet Explorer 6. This behaviour can then be used to insert and execute JavaScript in the context of the website.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 29951
File Name: freebsd_pkg_6f736456c06011dc982e001372fd0af2.nasl
Version: 1.17
Type: local
Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks
Published: 1/14/2008
Updated: 1/6/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:drupal4, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:drupal5, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info
Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2008
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-0273