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
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.