Debian 4.0: DSA 1290-1 Moderate: Squirrelmail Cross-Site Scripting Fix

debian

May 13, 2007

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 th...

Topics Covered

security advisory software update debian cross-site scripting moderate severity webmail input sanitization

Summary

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.

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 GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 680 6c295daf080ac9c28a5a1dba6638e84d
Size/MD5 checksum: 29878 fe8738a69d997ce9604691c09e50a818
Size/MD5 checksum: 575871 f50548b6f4f24d28afb5e6048977f4da

Architecture independent components:

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