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
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.