Debian: mhonarc XSS vulnerability
Summary
Earl Hood, author of mhonarc, a mail to HTML converter, discovered a
cross site scripting vulnerability in this package. A specially
crafted HTML mail message can introduce foreign scripting content in
archives, by-passing MHonArc's HTML script filtering.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 2.5.2-1.3.
For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed
in version 2.4.4-1.3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.14-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mhonarc package.
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 2.2 alias potato
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Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 538 85b90e1fdef1b2bd9ef5120e15eec735
Size/MD5 checksum: 6678 c73a6548e5a580037a0bf6491785fa9d
Size/MD5 checksum: 451692 17bfacfc31d185f472695b0fac5d23b9
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 453522 4d0b4ed0497569652dfce1544826d959
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 560 f72534abf58b0be253929d0dfb2db8c7
Size/MD5 checksum: 5467 a4494469a18e6218c764965aa0d04e1f
Size/MD5 checksum: 600942 5151b61a4dc2bd18214e9a8d47ec41df
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 573378 c60ffdc112a2ed9cdc0a30fab9478b75
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.