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drupal: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):drupal CVE #(s):CVE-2008-3661
Created:May 4, 2009 Updated:May 6, 2009
Description:

From the Drupal advisory:

Certain byte sequences that are valid in the UTF-8 specification are potentially dangerous when interpreted as UTF-7. Internet Explorer 6 and 7 may decode these characters as UTF-7 if they appear before the tag that specifies the page content as UTF-8, despite the fact that Drupal also sends a real HTTP header specifying the content as UTF-8. This behaviour enables malicious users to insert and execute Javascript in the context of the website if site visitors are allowed to post content.

In addition, Drupal core also has a very limited information disclosure vulnerability under very specific conditions. If a user is tricked into visiting the site via a specially crafted URL and then submits a form (such as the search box) from that page, the information in their form submission may be directed to a third-party site determined by the URL and thus disclosed to the third party. The third party site may then execute a CSRF attack against the submitted form.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-1792-1 2009-05-06
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4175 2009-05-02
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4203 2009-05-02

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