Debian DSA-2204-1 : imp4 - insufficient input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52998

Synopsis

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

Description

Moritz Naumann discovered that IMP 4, a webmail component for the Horde framework, is prone to cross-site scripting attacks by a lack of input sanitising of certain Fetchmail information.

Solution

Upgrade the imp4 packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4.2-4lenny3.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.7+debian0-2.1, which was already included in the squeeze release.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598584

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/imp4

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2204

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52998

File Name: debian_DSA-2204.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/28/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:imp4, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/27/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3695

BID: 43515

DSA: 2204