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Debian DSA-221-1 : mhonarc - XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15058

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the mhonarc package.

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.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-221

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15058

File Name: debian_DSA-221.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mhonarc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/3/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/21/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1388

BID: 6479

DSA: 221