Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:04:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: [email protected] (Martin Schulze)
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 700-1] New mailreader packages fix cross-site scripting vulnerability
Priority: urgent
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 700-1 [email protected]http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
March 30th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : mailreader
Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-0386
Ulf HДrnhammar 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
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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
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29-5woody2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 623 42f2edc38e5e563013f08deb401daed2
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29-5woody2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 40004 7c68b982f9c7e45504411805d622d4e1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 307934 8e2687227ac737f244994e19ca3ba575
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29-5woody2_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 352696 32dfa7f100f7716b0b47b85b60c5c3d8
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<;pkg>
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