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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1290-1 (squirrelmail)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to squirrelmail announced via advisory DSA 1290-1.

Insight

Insight

It was discovered that the webmail package Squirrelmail performs insufficient sanitising inside the HTML filter, which allows the injection of arbitrary web script code during the display of HTML email messages. For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.4-11. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.9a-2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.10a-1. We recommend that you upgrade your squirrelmail package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201290-1

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