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Date:      Mon, 7 Dec 2015 23:22:25 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Jason Unovitch <junovitch@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r403243 - head/security/vuxml
Message-ID:  <201512072322.tB7NMPvA026613@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: junovitch
Date: Mon Dec  7 23:22:24 2015
New Revision: 403243
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/403243

Log:
  Document client controlled header overwriting in Phusion Passenger
  
  PR:		205104
  Security:	CVE-2015-7519
  Security:	https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/84fdd1bb-9d37-11e5-8f5c-002590263bf5.html

Modified:
  head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml

Modified: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml	Mon Dec  7 23:07:04 2015	(r403242)
+++ head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml	Mon Dec  7 23:22:24 2015	(r403243)
@@ -58,6 +58,53 @@ Notes:
 
 -->
 <vuxml xmlns="http://www.vuxml.org/apps/vuxml-1">;
+  <vuln vid="84fdd1bb-9d37-11e5-8f5c-002590263bf5">
+    <topic>passenger -- client controlled header overwriting</topic>
+    <affects>
+      <package>
+	<name>rubygem-passenger</name>
+	<range><ge>5.0.0</ge><lt>5.0.22</lt></range>
+	<range><lt>4.0.60</lt></range>
+      </package>
+    </affects>
+    <description>
+      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">;
+	<p>Daniel Knoppel reports:</p>
+	<blockquote cite="https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/12/07/cve-2015-7519/">;
+	  <p>It was discovered by the SUSE security team that it was possible,
+	    in some cases, for clients to overwrite headers set by the server,
+	    resulting in a medium level security issue. CVE-2015-7519 has been
+	    assigned to this issue.</p>
+	  <p>Affected use-cases:</p>
+	  <p>Header overwriting may occur if all of the following conditions are met:</p>
+	  <ul>
+	    <li>Apache integration mode, or standalone+builtin engine without
+	      a filtering proxy</li>
+	    <li>Ruby or Python applications only (Passenger 5); or any
+	      application (Passenger 4)</li>
+	    <li>The app depends on a request header containing a dash (-)</li>
+	    <li>The header is supposed to be trusted (set by the server)</li>
+	    <li>The client correctly guesses the header name</li>
+	  </ul>
+	  <p>This vulnerability has been fixed by filtering out client headers
+	    that do not consist of alphanumeric/dash characters (Nginx already
+	    did this, so Passenger+Nginx was not affected). If your application
+	    depends on headers that don't conform to this, you can add a
+	    workaround in Apache specifically for those to convert them to a
+	    dash-based format.</p>
+	</blockquote>
+      </body>
+    </description>
+    <references>
+      <cvename>CVE-2015-7519</cvename>
+      <url>https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/12/07/cve-2015-7519/</url>;
+    </references>
+    <dates>
+      <discovery>2015-12-07</discovery>
+      <entry>2015-12-07</entry>
+    </dates>
+  </vuln>
+
   <vuln vid="e6b974ab-9d35-11e5-8f5c-002590263bf5">
     <topic>Salt -- information disclosure</topic>
     <affects>



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