Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1682-1 squirrelmail -- insufficient input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 07 Dec 2008
- Affected Packages:
- squirrelmail
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2379.
- More information:
-
Ivan Markovic discovered that SquirrelMail, a webmail application, did not sufficiently sanitise incoming HTML email, allowing an attacker to perform cross site scripting through sending a malicious HTML email.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.9a-3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.15-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your squirrelmail package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.4.9a-3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.4.9a.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.4.9a-3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.4.9a.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.4.9a-3_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.