Package: mono
Severity: important
Tags: security, patch

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for mono.

CVE-2008-3422[0]:
| Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the ASP.net
| class libraries in Mono 2.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to
| inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted attributes related to
| (1) HtmlControl.cs (PreProcessRelativeReference), (2) HtmlForm.cs
| (RenderAttributes), (3) HtmlInputButton (RenderAttributes), (4)
| HtmlInputRadioButton (RenderAttributes), and (5) HtmlSelect
| (RenderChildren).

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

Also see the discussion on upstream's mailinglist about the issue and the 
proposed
patch[1], as well as Novell's bugreport[2].

Cheers
Steffen

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3422
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-3422

[1] 
http://n2.nabble.com/-PATCH--HTML-encode-attributes-that-might-need-encoding-td584193.html

[2] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=413534



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