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Debian Security Advisory DSA 820-1 security_at_debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
September 24th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : courier
Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-2820
Debian Bug : 327181
Jakob Balle discovered that with "Conditional Comments" in Internet
Explorer it is possible to hide javascript code in comments that will
be executed when the browser views a malicious email via sqwebmail.
Successful exploitation requires that the user is using Internet
Explorer.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.37.3-2.7.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.47-4sarge3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.47-9.
We recommend that you upgrade your sqwebmail package.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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