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[DSA700] DSA-700-1 mailreader

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-700-1 mailreader

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Ulf H�rnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a
cross-site scripting problem in mailreader, a simple, but powerful WWW
mail reader system, when displaying messages of the MIME types
text/enriched or text/richtext.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.29-5woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.29-11.
We recommend that you upgrade your mailreader package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-700
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

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

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