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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 is tricked into viewing a malformed email inside the Imp client.. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1470-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff January 20, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : horde3 Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-6018 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 is tricked into viewing a malformed email inside the Imp client. This update also provides backported bugfixes to the cross-site scripting filter and the user management API from the latest Horde release 3.1.6. 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 andsparc. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 682 65c2b4458281e2e4c844b7bd4af52ba3 Size/MD5 checksum: 12893 db60e2c62f488824247429c35ace45fd Size/MD5 checksum: 5232958 fbc56c608ac81474b846b1b4b7bb5ee7 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 5261396 e1cff2548fbd2f1984e2cf956ecd43f8 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb https://www.debian.org/security/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Debian's security team warns of a Horde 3 vulnerability affecting email deletion, risking denial of service attacks. Administrators should review and update systems.. Horde Framework, Email Deletion, Input Sanitisation, Debian Security, Denial of Service. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 20, 2008
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