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Debian DSA-1290-1 : squirrelmail - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25227

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that the webmail package Squirrelmail performs insufficient sanitising inside the HTML filter, which allows the injection of arbitrary web script code during the display of HTML email messages.

Solution

Upgrade the squirrelmail package.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2:1.4.4-11.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 2:1.4.9a-2.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1290

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25227

File Name: debian_DSA-1290.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2007

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:3.1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1262

CWE: 79

DSA: 1290