[Secure-testing-team] Bug#563940: CVE-2009-4459: uses the title tag before defining the character encoding in a meta tag

[Giuseppe Iuculano]

Package: redmine
Severity: serious
Tags: security

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Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for redmine.

CVE-2009-4459[0]:
| Redmine 0.8.7 and earlier uses the title tag before defining the
| character encoding in a meta tag, which allows remote attackers to
| conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and inject arbitrary script
| via UTF-7 encoded values in the title parameter to a new issue page,
| which may be interpreted as script by Internet Explorer 7 and 8.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-4459
    http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4459


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