Debian 3.0: DSA 191-1 Moderate: Squirrelmail XSS Vulnerability

Several cross site scripting vulnerabilities have been found in
squirrelmail, a feature-rich webmail package written in PHP4. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project identified the
following vulnerabilities:

1. CAN-2002-1131: User input is not always sanitized so execution of
arbitrary code on a client computer is possible. This can happen
after following a malicious URL or by viewing a malicious
addressbook entry.

2. CAN-2002-1132: Another problem could make it possible for an
attacker to gain sensitive information under some conditions.
When a malformed argument is appended to a link, an error page
will be generated which contains the absolute pathname of the
script. However, this information is available through the
Contents file of the distribution anyway.

These problems have been fixed in version 1.2.6-1.1 the current stable
distribution (woody) and in version 1.2.8-1.1 for the unstable
distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato...