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Yaws Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA15740
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Release Date:
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2005-06-17
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Last Update:
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2005-06-24
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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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: | Yaws 1.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2005-2008 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
M. Eiszner has reported a vulnerability in Yaws, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information.
This vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when handling a request containing a NULL byte appended to the filename. This can be exploited to retrieve the source code of yaws script files (.yaws) on a vulnerable server.
The vulnerability is reported in version 1.55 and prior.
Solution:
Update to version 1.56:
http://yaws.hyber.org/yaws-1.55_to_1.56.patch
Provided and/or discovered by:
M. Eiszner, SEC-Consult.
Changelog:
2005-06-24: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
SEC Consult:
http://www.sec-consult.com/181.html
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