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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2020-1034-01 Low Risk Doxygen XSS Issue

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The Red Hat advisory announces a low-severity update for doxygen, addressing XSS vulnerabilities. Users are urged to update to safeguard against potential attacks.
An update for doxygen is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Doxygen can generate an online class browser (in HTML) and/or a reference manual (in LaTeX) from a set of documented source files. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources. Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code structure from undocumented source files.
Security Fix(es):
* doxygen: cross-site scripting in templates/html/search_opensearch.php (CVE-2016-10245)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat update cross-site scripting low severity doxygen

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10245 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
Source: doxygen-1.8.5-4.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: doxygen-1.8.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm doxygen-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm doxygen-doxywizard-1.8.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm doxygen-latex-1.8.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
Source: doxygen-1.8.5-4.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: doxygen-1.8.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm doxygen-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm doxygen-doxywizard-1.8.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm doxygen-latex-1.8.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: doxygen-1.8.5-4.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: doxygen-1.8.5-4.el7.ppc64.rpm doxygen-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: doxygen-1.8.5-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm doxygen-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: doxygen-1.8.5-4.el7.s390x.rpm doxygen-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: doxygen-1.8.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm doxygen-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
ppc64: doxygen-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el7.ppc64.rpm doxygen-doxywizard-1.8.5-4.el7.ppc64.rpm doxygen-latex-1.8.5-4.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: doxygen-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm doxygen-doxywizard-1.8.5-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm doxygen-latex-1.8.5-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: doxygen-debuginfo-1.8.5-4.el7.s390x.rpm doxygen-doxywizard-1.8.5-4.el7.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1034-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1034
Issue date: 2020-03-31

Topic

An update for doxygen is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat update cross-site scripting low severity doxygen

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1483569 - Incorrect processing of code blocks in doxygen

1714190 - CVE-2016-10245 doxygen: cross-site scripting in templates/html/search_opensearch.php

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