full-disclosure - Re: [DRUPAL-SA-2005-008] Drupal 4.6.4 / 4.5.6 fixes XSS and HTTP header injection issue

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Date: Fri Dec  2 11:18:45 2005
From: aksecurity at hotpop.com (Amit Klein (AKsecurity))
Subject: Re: [DRUPAL-SA-2005-008] Drupal 4.6.4 / 4.5.6
 fixes XSS and HTTP header injection issue

On 1 Dec 2005 at 16:45, Uwe Hermann wrote:

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Drupal security advisory                                  DRUPAL-SA-2005-008
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Advisory ID:    DRUPAL-SA-2005-008
> Project:        Drupal core
> Date:           2005-11-30
> Security risk:  less critical
> Impact:         normal
> Where:          from remote
> Vulnerability:  XSS, HTTP header injection
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Description
> -----------
> Paul Laudanski informed us that it's possible to attach files that are able
> to run Javascript under Internet Explorer.
> 
> Further investigation of the problem revealed that the same method can be
> used to inject arbitrary HTTP headers.
> 

Would this injection be in the context of the HTTP response stream (i.e. HTTP Response 
Splitting?)

-Amit