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Debian: DSA 1034-1 Critical: Horde2 Remote Code Execution Advisory

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Calendar Grey April 14, 2006
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Patches addressing multiple security flaws in horde2 identified in Debian's notice DSA 1034-1, aiming to bolster protection.
Updated package.

Summary


Null characters in the URL parameter bypass a sanity check, which
allowed remote attackers to read arbitrary files, which allowed
information disclosure.

CVE-2006-1491

User input in the help viewer was passed unsanitised to the eval()
function, which allowed injection of arbitrary web code.


The old stable distribution (woody) doesn't contain horde2 packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.2.8-1sarge2.

The unstable distribution (sid) does no longer contain horde2 packages.

We recommend that you upgrade your horde2 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...

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