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XSP Directory Traversal Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21840
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Release Date:
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2006-09-11
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Last Update:
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2006-12-21
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Popularity:
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5,978 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | XSP 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-2658
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in XSP, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
The vulnerability is caused due to insufficient checks of path names in HTTP requests. This can be exploited to access arbitrary files on a vulnerable system via directory traversal attacks.
Solution:
Update to version 1.1.15 or later.
The vulnerability has also been fixed in version 1.1.13.7, 1.1.7.13, 1.0.9.1, and 1.0.6.1.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported in a SUSE advisory.
Changelog:
2006-12-21: Updated "Solution" section.
Original Advisory:
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Sep/0005.html
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