[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> I am trying to decode what was meant by this:

>      It is easy for an attacker to insert arbitrary strings into any web
>      server logfile. If these strings are then analysed by analog, they can
>      appear in the report. By this means an attacker can introduce
>      arbitrary Javascript code, for example, into an analog report produced
>      by someone else and read by a third person. Analog already attempted
>      to encode unsafe characters to avoid this type of attack, but the
>     conversion was incomplete.

> Can someone give me an example of how this is or can be a real problem.

It is basically an extension if this exploit:

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-02.html


> I am not a JAVA developer but have an extensive C/UNIX background.

Java has no bearing on this. JavaScript is a different language
entirely and can be embedded in HTML pages to be run on the client.

http://developer.netscape.com/js/


-- 

Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group

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