DSA-221-1 mhonarc -- cross site scripting

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:

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

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

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.