Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:20111579000
Revision Date:2011-04-26Version:1
Title:CVE-2011-1579 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - medium.
Description:The checkCss function in includes/Sanitizer.php in the wikitext parser in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 does not properly validate Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive information by using the \2f\2a and \2a\2f hex strings to surround CSS comments.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2011-1579
Platform(s):Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'mediawiki' package in trusty is not affected (note: '1:1.19.2-1').
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