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Debian: DSA-1470-1 Critical: Horde Email Deletion DoS Advisory

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Calendar Grey January 20, 2008
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Debian's security team warns of a Horde 3 vulnerability affecting email deletion, risking denial of service attacks. Administrators should review and update systems.
Ulf Harnhammer discovered that the HTML filter of the Horde web application framework performed insufficient input sanitising, which may lead to the deletion of emails if a user ...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1.3-4etch2.

The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected. An update to
Etch is recommended, though.

We recommend that you upgrade your horde3 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 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 682 65c2b4458281e2e4c844b7bd4af52ba3
Size/MD5 checksum: 12893 db60e2c62f488824247429c35ace45fd
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