CVE-2011-4940 - Juglandaceous Cocksucker

Description

The list_directory function in Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py in SimpleHTTPServer in Python before 2.5.6c1 2.6.x before 2.6.7 rc2 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 does not place a charset parameter in the Content-Type HTTP header which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against Internet Explorer 7 via UTF-7 encoding.

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803500 http://bugs.python.org/issue11442 http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2012-000063 http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN51176027/index.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1596-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1592-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54083 http://secunia.com/advisories/51040 http://secunia.com/advisories/50858 http://secunia.com/advisories/51024