Debian Security Advisory
DSA-700-1 mailreader -- missing input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 30 Mar 2005
- Affected Packages:
- mailreader
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0386.
- More information:
-
Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a cross-site scripting problem in mailreader, a simple, but powerful WWW mail reader system, when displaying messages of the MIME types text/enriched or text/richtext.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.29-5woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.29-11.
We recommend that you upgrade your mailreader package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29-5woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29-5woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29-5woody2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29-5woody2_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.