Debian Security Advisory
DSA-221-1 mhonarc -- cross site scripting
- Date Reported:
- 03 Jan 2003
- Affected Packages:
- mhonarc
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 6479.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-1388. - More information:
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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.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.4.4-1.3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.4.4-1.3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.4.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.4.4-1.3.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.4.4-1.3_all.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.5.2-1.3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.5.2-1.3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.5.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.5.2-1.3.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhonarc/mhonarc_2.5.2-1.3_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.