[ GLSA 200411-35 ] phpWebSite: HTTP response splitting vulnerability

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: phpWebSite: HTTP response splitting vulnerability (GLSA 200411-35)
Severity: low
Exploitable: remote
Date: November 26, 2004
Updated: May 22, 2006
Bug(s): #71502
ID: 200411-35

Synopsis

phpWebSite is vulnerable to possible HTTP response splitting attacks.

Background

phpWebSite is a web site content management system.

Affected Packages

Package: www-apps/phpwebsite
Vulnerable: < 0.9.3_p4-r2
Unaffected: >= 0.9.3_p4-r2
Architectures: All supported architectures

Description

Due to lack of proper input validation, phpWebSite has been found to be vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks.

Impact

A malicious user could inject arbitrary response data, leading to content spoofing, web cache poisoning and other cross-site scripting or HTTP response splitting attacks. This could result in compromising the victim's data or browser.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All phpWebSite users should upgrade to the latest version: