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                        SuSE Security Announcement

        Package:                webalizer
        Announcement-ID:        SuSE-SA:2001:040
        Date:                   Tuesday, Nov 06th, 2001 12.00 MET
        Affected SuSE versions: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
        Vulnerability Type:     remote privilege escalation
                                (cross-site scripting)
        Severity (1-10):        5
        SuSE default package:   no
        Other affected systems: all linux-like systems using this version
                                of webalizer

        Content of this advisory:
        1) security vulnerability resolved: webalizer
           problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information
        2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds
        3) standard appendix (further information)

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1)  problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information

    The webalizer is a widely used tool for analyzing web server logs and
    produce statistics in HTML format.
    An exploitable bug was found in webalizer which allows a remote attacker
    to execute commands on other client machines or revealing sensitive
    information by placing HTML tags in the right place. This is possible
    due to missing sanity checks on untrusted data - hostnames and search
    keywords in this case - that are received by webalizer. This kind of attack
    is also known as "Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability".
    Additionally the untrusted data will be written to files on the server
    running webalizer; this may lead to further problems when using this
    data as input for third-party software/scripts.

    There is no known temporary fix, so please update your system with
    the new RPMs from our FTP server.

    Download the update package from locations described below and install
    the package with the command:
        rpm -Uhv file.rpm
    The md5sum for each file is in the line below. You can verify the
    integrity of the rpm files using the command:
        rpm --checksig --nogpg file.rpm
    independently from the md5 signatures below.




    i386 Intel Platform:

    SuSE-7.3
      
      3525fd6ab9c27be34edad9bef05ff061
    source rpm:
      
      898d975f34991a02f02da603b6bcd529

    SuSE-7.2
      
      593a7f033158f57bac47cf2fa9cb83bc
    source rpm:
      
      70ceb86a0373070a06f6d39ec0bc4377

    SuSE-7.1
      
      74288622703dec120b18c0fbb5003917
    source rpm:
      
      213f7a394052dc193be05a882768054a



    Sparc Platform:

    SuSE-7.1
      
      5aa3b7511d704415498fbec3bfc2ccd5
    source rpm:
      
      792efab485712286fc848234b1aa249d



    AXP Alpha Platform:

    SuSE-7.1
      
      aa93070e8358b1cfd91b7fabffbfa985
    source rpm:
      
      2065dd78c3f8147a94f97994fb37e6ce



    PPC Power PC Platform:


    SuSE-7.3
      
      cc28460b1d6fac8f87cc4658fae45d3e
    source rpm:
      
      7d7cec18f488f97187338723b0151426

    SuSE-7.1
      
      3630f538b0445ee462b73475b488b146
    source rpm:
      
      4c998066d5eb545bb1551e246f2724c1


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2)  Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds:

    - openssh
      After stabilizing the openssh package, updates for the distributions
      6.4-7.2 are currently being prepared. The update packages fix a security
      problem related to the recently discovered problems with source ip
      based access restrictions in a user's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file.
      The packages will appear shortly on our ftp servers. Please note that
      packages for the distributions 6.3 and up including 7.0 containing
      cryptographic software are located on the German ftp server ftp.suse.de,
      all other packages can be found on ftp.suse.com at the usual location.
      We will issue a dedicated Security announcement for the openssh package.

    - nvi
      Takeshi Uno found a format tag vulnerability in all versions of nvi.
      The bug will be fixed in future version of SuSE Linux.

    - Please watch out for more announcements that are currently in our queue.

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3)  standard appendix:

    SuSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may
    subscribe:

    suse-security@suse.com
        -   general/linux/SuSE security discussion.
            All SuSE security announcements are sent to this list.
            To subscribe, send an email to
                <suse-security-subscribe@suse.com>.

    suse-security-announce@suse.com
        -   SuSE's announce-only mailing list.
            Only SuSE's security annoucements are sent to this list.
            To subscribe, send an email to
                <suse-security-announce-subscribe@suse.com>.

    For general information or the frequently asked questions (faq)
    send mail to:
        <suse-security-info@suse.com> or
        <suse-security-faq@suse.com> respectively.

    ==============================================    SuSE's security contact is <security@suse.com>.
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