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Debian DSA-1682-1 : squirrelmail - insufficient input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35083

Synopsis

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

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the squirrelmail package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.9a-3.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1682

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35083

File Name: debian_DSA-1682.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squirrelmail, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2379

CWE: 79

DSA: 1682