Debian Security Advisory DSA 534-1                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Matt Zimmerman
July 22nd, 2004                          Debian -- Debian security FAQ 
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Package        : mailreader
Vulnerability  : directory traversal
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids        : CAN-2002-1581

A directory traversal vulnerability was discovered in mailreader
whereby remote attackers could view arbitrary files with the
privileges of the nph-mr.cgi process (by default, www-data) via
relative paths and a null byte in the configLanguage parameter.

For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been
fixed in version 2.3.29-5woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update 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:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:      623 40827025821290e7130571a78fd0b06d
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    39678 b172e5b8957ee2f6b44122e0d3c99e06
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   307934 8e2687227ac737f244994e19ca3ba575

  Architecture independent components:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   362912 d3708d9d7ecc4064797f12cbe7d8489e

  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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