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The Horde team released version 2.2.6 of IMP (a web based IMAP mailprogram) which fixes three security problems. Their release announcementdescribes them as follows:. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-073-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Debian -- Security Information Wichert Akkerman August 11, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : imp Problem type : 3 remote exploits Debian-specific: no The Horde team released version 2.2.6 of IMP (a web based IMAP mail program) which fixes three security problems. Their release announcement describes them as follows: 1. A PHPLIB vulnerability allowed an attacker to provide a value for the array element $_PHPLIB[libdir], and thus to get scripts from another server to load and execute. This vulnerability is remotely exploitable. (Horde 1.2.x ships with its own customized version of PHPLIB, which has now been patched to prevent this problem.) 2. By using tricky encodings of "javascript:" an attacker can cause malicious JavaScript code to execute in the browser of a user reading email sent by attacker. (IMP 2.2.x already filters many such patterns; several new ones that were slipping past the filters are now blocked.) 3. A hostile user that can create a publicly-readable file named "prefs.lang" somewhere on the Apache/PHP server can cause that file to be executed as PHP code. The IMP configuration files could thus be read, the Horde database password used to read and alter the database used to store contacts and preferences, etc. We do not believe this is remotely exploitable directly through Apache/PHP/IMP; however, shell access to the server or other means (e.g., FTP) could be used to create this file. This has been fixed in version 2:2.2.6-0.potato.1 . Please note you will also need to upgrade the horde package to the same version. wget url willfetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato --------------------------------- Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc. Source archives: MD5 checksum: 66f6581b1e5f4417660f490caa24a16f MD5 checksum: 5ae80d5f9a83fdee7887a251fff1ad24 MD5 checksum: 9a63f630e56d3f6a9382dddfc8d74392 MD5 checksum: dfd678eac1cb0942122a9e3c3ae132de MD5 checksum: bee66abb8039518f060cc2b6de06daa6 MD5 checksum: 8f7920c8173e1ef2724cb25a311f9ca8 Architecture independent archives: MD5 checksum: 397e13b5242dda2fe381cd1b8dd43140 MD5 checksum: 22ceec9831933491ce0af72f6f437a9c These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate directory . -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . The Debian DSA-073-1 advisory details critical security fixes for IMP mail software, addressing remote exploits affecting users.. Debian Security,Horde Update,Remote Exploits,IMPSecurity,EmailProtection. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 11, 2001
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