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[DSA199] DSA-199-1 mhonarc

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-199-1 mhonarc

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

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.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-199
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 6204

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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