Debian: New mailreader packages fix cross-site scripting vulnerability
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 700-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 30th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : mailreader Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0386 Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a cross-site scripting problem in mailreader, a simple, but powerful WWW mail reader system, when displaying messages of the MIME types text/enriched or text/richtext. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.29-5woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.29-11. We recommend that you upgrade your mailreader package. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 623 42f2edc38e5e563013f08deb401daed2 Size/MD5 checksum: 40004 7c68b982f9c7e45504411805d622d4e1 Size/MD5 checksum: 307934 8e2687227ac737f244994e19ca3ba575 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 352696 32dfa7f100f7716b0b47b85b60c5c3d8 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org