HTML injection in nicknames

[Guillaume Desmottes]

I just requested CVE-2011-3635 for https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662035

I'm opening this bug to already let you know about this security issue as Ubuntu is more affected than other distros as it ships an Adium theme by default.

Here is the description of the CVE:

Empathy from version 2.25.3 to 3.2.1.1 is vulnerable to a HTML injection bug in its chat window. Only version built with WebKit support (which was optional before version 3.1.5.1) are affected. Also this doesn't affect the default chat window, the vulnerability happens only when the user has configured it to use an Adium theme (none are provided by default).

Fix:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/commit/?id=739aca418457de752be13721218aaebc74bd9d36
Details: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662035

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

Thanks for the report! Assigning the task to myself.

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

Also noting here that the commit http://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/patch/?id=15a4eec2f156c4f60398a9d842279203f475ed89 is needed as well.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 3.2.0.1-0ubuntu1.1

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empathy (3.2.0.1-0ubuntu1.1) oneiric-security; urgency=low

  * SECURITY UPDATE: remote HTML injection (LP: #879301)
    - debian/patches/50_empathy-CVE-2011-3635-lp879301.patch: escape
      HTML in when displaying other users' names. (Thanks to upstream
      for patch.)
    - CVE-2011-3635, CVE-2011-4170
 -- Steve Beattie <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:56:42 -0700