Summary
The remote host is missing an update to squirrelmail announced via advisory DSA 1682-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201682-1
Insight
Ivan Markovic discovered that SquirrelMail, a webmail application, did not sufficiently sanitise incoming HTML email, allowing an attacker to perform cross site scripting through sending a malicious HTML email.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.9a-3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.15-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your squirrelmail package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-2379 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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