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Debian: New mhonarc packages fix cross site scripting
by Patrick Lenz, in Security - Fri, Jan 3rd 2003 16:47 PDT
Earl Hood, author of mhonarc, a mail to HTML converter, discovered a cross site scripting vulnerability in this package. A specially crafted HTML mail message can introduce foreign scripting content in archives, by-passing MHonArc's HTML script filtering. Fixed packages are available from security.debian.org.
Links:
security.debian.org
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 221-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
January 3rd, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : mhonarc
Vulnerability : cross site scripting
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CAN-2002-1388
Earl Hood, author of mhonarc, a mail to HTML converter, discovered a
cross site scripting vulnerability in this package. A specially
crafted HTML mail message can introduce foreign scripting content in
archives, by-passing MHonArc's HTML script filtering.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 2.5.2-1.3.
For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed
in version 2.4.4-1.3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.14-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mhonarc package.
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 2.2 alias potato
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.4.4-1.3.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 538 85b90e1fdef1b2bd9ef5120e15eec735
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.4.4-1.3.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 6678 c73a6548e5a580037a0bf6491785fa9d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.4.4.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 451692 17bfacfc31d185f472695b0fac5d23b9
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.4.4-1.3_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 453522 4d0b4ed0497569652dfce1544826d959
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.5.2-1.3.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 560 f72534abf58b0be253929d0dfb2db8c7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.5.2-1.3.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 5467 a4494469a18e6218c764965aa0d04e1f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.5.2.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 600942 5151b61a4dc2bd18214e9a8d47ec41df
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.5.2-1.3_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 573378 c60ffdc112a2ed9cdc0a30fab9478b75
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/
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MHonArc - A mail to HTML converter.
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