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TITLE:
FeedDemon Atom Feed Script Insertion Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21995

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21995/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
FeedDemon 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/9642/
FeedDemon 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/9643/

DESCRIPTION:
SPI Dynamics have reported some vulnerabilities in FeedDemon, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion
attacks.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to input validation errors in the
processing of Atom feeds. This can be exploited to inject and execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in context of the Atom feed by tricking
a user into adding a malicious Atom feed and then viewing the contents
of it.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.0.25:
http://www.newsgator.com/download/FeedDemon/FeedDemonInstall.exe

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
SPI Dynamics

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
NewsGator Technologies:
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/feed_security_a_1.html
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/ann_feeddemon_2.html

SPI Dynamics:
http://www.cgisecurity.com/papers/RSS-Security.ppt

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