Gentoo alert 200212-4 (squirrelmail)

From:
    	     
 
Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
To:
    	     
 
bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject:
    	     
 
GLSA: squirrelmail
Date:
    	     
 
Sun, 15 Dec 2002 15:38:48 +0100

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-4
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PACKAGE : squirrelmail
SUMMARY : cross site scripting
DATE    : 2002-12-15 14:12 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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euronymous <just-a-user@yandex.ru> found that read_body.php didn't 
filter out user input for 'filter_dir' and 'mailbox', making a xss
attack possible.

Read the full advisory at
http://f0kp.iplus.ru/bz/008.txt

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-mail/squirrelmail-1.2.9 and earlier update their systems as follows:

emerge rsync
emerge squirrelmail
emerge clean

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