Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New mhonarc packages fix cross site scripting problems |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-163 | First vendor Publication | 2002-09-09 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2002-09-09 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 7.5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Jason Molenda and Hiromitsu Takagi found ways to exploit cross site scripting bugs in mhonarc, a mail to HTML converter. When processing maliciously crafted mails of type text/html, mhonarc, does not deactivate all scripting parts properly. This is fixed in upstream version 2.5.3. If you are worried about security, it is recommended that you disable support of text/html messages in your mail archives. There is no guarantee that the mhtxthtml.pl library is robust enough to eliminate all possible exploits that can occur with HTML data. To exclude HTML data, you can use the MIMEEXCS resource. For example: The use of "text/x-html" is probably not used any more, but is good to include it, just-in-case. If you are concerend that this could block out the entire contents of some messages, then you could do the following instead: This treats the HTML as text/plain. The above problems have been fixed in version 2.5.2-1.1 for the current stable stable distribution (woody), in version 2.4.4-1.1 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 2.5.11-1 for the unstable distribution (sid). We recommend that you upgrade your mhonarc packages. 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 2.2 alias potato |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-163 |
CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification
| Id | Name |
|---|---|
| CAPEC-199 | Cross-Site Scripting Using Alternate Syntax |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 3 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 163-1 (mhonarc) File : nvt/deb_163_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 5121 | MHonArc mhtxthtml.pl Javascript Filter Bypass |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2010-07-26 | Name : The remote web server is prone to cross-site scripting attacks. File : torture_cgi_cross_site_scripting2.nasl - Type : ACT_ATTACK |
| 2004-09-29 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-163.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:27:50 |
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