Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2414-2 fex

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2414-2 fex -- insufficient input sanitization

Date Reported:

25 Feb 2012

Affected Packages:

fex

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-0869.

More information:

Nicola Fioravanti discovered that F*X, a web service for transferring very large files, is not properly sanitizing input parameters of the fup script. An attacker can use this flaw to conduct reflected cross-site scripting attacks via various script parameters.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 20100208+debian1-1+squeeze3.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 20120215-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your fex packages.