Secure testing team - May 2010 - Bug#583290: zonecheck: XSS security bug in the CGI

Package: zonecheck
Version: 2.0.4-13
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole


There is XSS security bug in Zonecheck cgi up to version 2.1.0. Fixed
upstream in 2.1.1. 

The patch is simple and can probably be backported: 
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/zonecheck/zc/publisher/html.rb?root=zonecheck&r1=1.79&r2=1.80

The bug has already been exploited in the wild:
http://www.xssed.com/mirror/61096/

The upstream bug report: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?29967

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, ''stable'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages zonecheck depends on:
ii  iputils-ping                3:20071127-1 Tools to test the reachability of 
ii  ruby                        4.2          An interpreter of object-oriented 

zonecheck recommends no packages.

zonecheck suggests no packages.

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