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TITLE:
XSP Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21840

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21840/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
XSP 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/11908/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in XSP, which can be exploited by
malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to insufficient checks of path names
in HTTP requests. This can be exploited to access arbitrary files on
a vulnerable system via directory traversal attacks.

SOLUTION:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences in a proxy.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a SUSE advisory.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Sep/0005.html

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