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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2001.340 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA-073-1 3 security problems in imp 14 August 2001 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: imp Vendor: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 Platform: Alpha ARM i386 Mips PowerPC Sparc Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands Access Required: Remote - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-073-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman August 11, 2001 - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : imp Problem type : 3 remote exploits Debian-specific: no The Horde team released version 2.2.6 of IMP (a web based IMAP mail program) which fixes three security problems. Their release announcement describes them as follows: 1. A PHPLIB vulnerability allowed an attacker to provide a value for the array element $_PHPLIB[libdir], and thus to get scripts from another server to load and execute. This vulnerability is remotely exploitable. (Horde 1.2.x ships with its own customized version of PHPLIB, which has now been patched to prevent this problem.) 2. By using tricky encodings of "javascript:" an attacker can cause malicious JavaScript code to execute in the browser of a user reading email sent by attacker. (IMP 2.2.x already filters many such patterns; several new ones that were slipping past the filters are now blocked.) 3. A hostile user that can create a publicly-readable file named "prefs.lang" somewhere on the Apache/PHP server can cause that file to be executed as PHP code. The IMP configuration files could thus be read, the Horde database password used to read and alter the database used to store contacts and preferences, etc. We do not believe this is remotely exploitable directly through Apache/PHP/IMP; however, shell access to the server or other means (e.g., FTP) could be used to create this file. This has been fixed in version 2:2.2.6-0.potato.1 . Please note you will also need to upgrade the horde package to the same version. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato - - --------------------------------- Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/horde_1.2.6-0.potato.1.diff.gz MD5 checksum: 66f6581b1e5f4417660f490caa24a16f http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/horde_1.2.6-0.potato.1.dsc MD5 checksum: 5ae80d5f9a83fdee7887a251fff1ad24 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/horde_1.2.6.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 9a63f630e56d3f6a9382dddfc8d74392 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/imp_2.2.6-0.potato.1.diff.gz MD5 checksum: dfd678eac1cb0942122a9e3c3ae132de http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/imp_2.2.6-0.potato.1.dsc MD5 checksum: bee66abb8039518f060cc2b6de06daa6 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/imp_2.2.6.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 8f7920c8173e1ef2724cb25a311f9ca8 Architecture independent archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/horde_1.2.6-0.potato.1_all.deb MD5 checksum: 397e13b5242dda2fe381cd1b8dd43140 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/imp_2.2.6-0.potato.1_all.deb MD5 checksum: 22ceec9831933491ce0af72f6f437a9c These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. 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