----------------------------------------------------------------------

Monitor, Filter, and Manage Security Information
- Filtering and Management of Secunia advisories
- Overview, documentation, and detailed reports
- Alerting via email and SMS

Request Trial:
https://ca.secunia.com/?f=l

----------------------------------------------------------------------

TITLE:
SafeHTML Decimal HTML Entities Security Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14403

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14403/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
SafeHTML 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4527/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in SafeHTML, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of
decimal HTML entities and the "\x00" symbol. This may be exploited to
bypass the blocking of dangerous content in HTML in an application
using SafeHTML for parsing HTML code.

This is related to:
SA13869

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.3.1.
http://pixel-apes.com/safehtml/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA13869:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13869/

----------------------------------------------------------------------

About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories
http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org

----------------------------------------------------------------------