Oval Definition:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15176
Revision Date:2014-06-23Version:20
Title:DSA-2335-1 man2html -- missing input sanitisation
Description:Tim Starling discovered that the Debian-native CGI wrapper for man2html, a program to convert UNIX man pages to HTML, is not properly escaping user-supplied input when displaying various error messages. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Family:unixClass:patch
Status:ACCEPTEDReference(s):CVE-2011-2770
DSA-2335-1
Platform(s):Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Product(s):man2html
Definition Synopsis
  • Release section
  • Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 is installed
  • AND Installed architecture is all
  • AND man2html DPKG is earlier than 1.6f-3+lenny1
  • OR Release section
  • Debian 6.0 is installed
  • AND GNU/Linux or GNU/kFreeBSD kernel
  • Debian GNU/Linux is installed
  • OR Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is installed
  • AND Installed architecture is all
  • AND man2html DPKG is earlier than 1.6f+repack-1+squeeze1
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