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Debian: horde and imp vulnerabilities

Date 10 Sep 2000

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

A vulnerability exists that could allow a user to run arbitrary commands on the server.

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Debian Security Advisory                             This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
https://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
September 10, 2000
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Package        : horde and imp
Problem type   : remote exploit
Debian-specific: no

imp as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffered from insufficient
checking of user supplied data: the IMP webmail interface did not check
the $from variable which contains the sender address for shell
metacharacters. This could be used to run arbitrary commands on the
server running imp.

To fix this horde (the library imp uses) has been modified to sanitize
$from, and imp has been patched to improve checking of user input.

The updated versions are horde 1.2.1-0 and imp 2.2.1-0, and we strongly
recommend you upgrade both packages immediately.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
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  The slink release did not contain horde and imp.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc
  architectures.

  Source archives:
     https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/horde_1.2.1-0.dsc
      MD5 checksum: b8043b7e3ffaa77ac7e1d2ceea251d94
     https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/horde_1.2.1-0.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: ac8b3ef0fcb82ea13b17ff3139d64383
     https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/imp_2.2.1-0.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 6799d4fa13a565fee72c7b24933162f3
     https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/imp_2.2.1-0.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: fb21210aa6e60c47b8387911f353c307

  Architecture indendent archives:
     https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/horde_1.2.1-0_all.deb
      MD5 checksum: 092bf9089947620cf5b6385a132088bd
     https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/imp_2.2.1-0_all.deb
      MD5 checksum: 3e74e9fea07e52726f1c0e50b07c4348

  These files will be moved into
   ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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