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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2005.0260 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 700-1 New mailreader packages fix cross-site scripting vulnerability 31 March 2005 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: mailreader Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Linux variants UNIX variants Windows Impact: Cross-site Scripting Access: Remote/Unauthenticated CVE Names: CAN-2005-0386 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-700 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 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. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCSofPW5ql+IAeqTIRAjA4AJ4uIqCYjBCuqmaC363BnJXRRZf7igCfY78K 0RK4Zg0AzKzpM9b5Bgo2n4Y= =A8Xl - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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