Secunia Advisory SA26326

Sun Java System Web Server "redirect" Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA26326
Release Date 2007-08-03
Last Update 2007-08-09
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Cross Site Scripting
Exposure of sensitive information
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Sun Java System Web Server (Sun ONE/iPlanet) 6.x
Sun Java System Web Server 7.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-4164 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Java System Web Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct HTTP header injection attacks, HTTP response splitting attacks, and disclose potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the "redirect" feature and can be exploited if the "redirect" Server Application Function (SAF) is set to use the "url-prefix" parameter in combination with the "escape" parameter set to "no", or if an "Error" directive uses the "url-prefix" parameter in the "obj.conf" file.

Solution
Apply updates or patches (please see vendor advisory for patch information).
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103003-1

Alternate/detailed remediation
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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