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Bug 462500 (CVE-2013-1770) - <sys-cluster/ganglia-web-3.5.8-r1: "view_name" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2013-1770)
Summary: <sys-cluster/ganglia-web-3.5.8-r1: "view_name" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabi...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2013-1770
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://secunia.com/advisories/52673/
Whiteboard: B4 [noglsa]
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-03-20 15:23 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2014-06-18 01:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-03-20 15:23:05 UTC
From ${URL} :

Description
A vulnerability has been reported in Ganglia, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct 
cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed via the "view_name" parameter to views_view.php 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 the context of an affected site.

The vulnerability is reported in version 3.5.7. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Fixed in the git repository.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892823
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/26/11
Comment 1 Justin Bronder (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-06-22 00:06:51 UTC
Bumped to 3.5.8 in tree which appears to have the fix for all the issues referenced in the redhat bug, in particular, this commit:

https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/commit/552965f33bf79d41ccbec3f1f26840c8bab54ad6
Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-04-04 10:20:58 UTC
CVE-2013-1770 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1770):

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in views_view.php in Ganglia Web 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the view_name parameter.
Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-04-04 10:22:12 UTC
(In reply to Justin Bronder from comment #1)
> Bumped to 3.5.8 in tree which appears to have the fix for all the issues
> referenced in the redhat bug, in particular, this commit:
> 
> https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/commit/
> 552965f33bf79d41ccbec3f1f26840c8bab54ad6

is fine to stabilize 3.5.8-r1?
Comment 4 Justin Bronder (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-04-04 18:37:54 UTC
(In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #3)
> is fine to stabilize 3.5.8-r1?

Sure.
Comment 5 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2014-04-04 18:41:32 UTC
Arches, please test and mark stable:

=sys-cluster/ganglia-web-3.5.8-r1

target KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc x86"
Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-04-05 22:40:06 UTC
amd64 stable
Comment 7 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-04-12 09:35:33 UTC
x86 stable
Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-04-13 11:08:06 UTC
ppc stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Security, please vote.
Comment 9 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2014-06-18 01:56:21 UTC
Arches and Maintainer(s), Thank you for your work.

Closing no GLSA for Cross Site Scripting