Executive Summary

Summary
Title New mhonarc packages fix cross site scripting
Informations
Name DSA-199 First vendor Publication 2002-11-19
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2002-11-19
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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Steven Christey discovered a cross site scripting vulnerability in mhonarc, a mail to HTML converter. Carefully crafted message headers can introduce cross site scripting when mhonarc is configured to display all headers lines on the web. However, it is often useful to restrict the displayed header lines to To, From and Subject, in which case the vulnerability cannot be exploited.

This problem has been fixed in version 2.5.2-1.2 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 2.4.4-1.2 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 2.5.13-1 for the unstable distribution (sid).

We recommend that you upgrade your mhonarc package.

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-199

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 199-1 (mhonarc)
File : nvt/deb_199_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
7353 MHonArc MIME Header Name XSS

MHonArc contains a flaw that allows a remote cross site scripting attack. This flaw exists because the application does not properly filter MIME header names in an email message. This could allow a user to create a specially crafted URL that would execute arbitrary code in a user's browser within the trust relationship between the browser and the server, leading to a loss of integrity.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2004-09-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-199.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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