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Gentoo: GLSA 202309-12 Critical: Cross-Site Scripting In WebApp Framework

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Calendar Grey September 5, 2008
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Uncover vulnerabilities associated with SQL injection in Gentoo's Courier Authentication Library and address them through an upgrade.
An SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered in the Courier Authentication Library.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200809-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Courier Authentication Library: SQL injection vulnerability Date: September 05, 2008 Bugs: #225407 ID: 200809-05

Synopsis ======= An SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered in the Courier Authentication Library.
Background ========= The Courier Authentication Library is a generic authentication API that encapsulates the process of validating account passwords.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-libs/courier-authlib < 0.60.6 >= 0.60.6
========== It has been discovered that some input (e.g. the username) passed to the libra...

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