| Name | CVE-2008-2852 |
| Description | Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in CGIWrap before 4.1, when an Internet Explorer based browser is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors related to failure to set the charset in error messages. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 497761 |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| cgiwrap | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | low | | 497761 |
Notes
[etch] - cgiwrap <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
only applies to certain character sets and only works with
browsers. There isn't a good solution available, the patch uses
a compile-time charset specification. All in all not a real
priority to fix in etch.