GLSA 200406-11: Horde-IMP: Input validation vulnerability

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Horde-IMP: Input validation vulnerability
Date:	06/16/2004
Bugs:	#53862
ID:	200406-11

Synopsis

An input validation vulnerability has been discovered in Horde-IMP.

Background

Horde-IMP is the Internet Messaging Program. It is written in PHP and provides webmail access to IMAP and POP3 accounts.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-apps/horde-imp	<= 3.2.3	>= 3.2.4	All supported architectures

Description

Horde-IMP fails to properly sanitize email messages that contain malicious HTML or script code.

Impact

By enticing a user to read a specially crafted e-mail, an attacker can execute arbitrary scripts running in the context of the victim's browser. This could lead to a compromise of the user's webmail account, cookie theft, etc.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Horde-IMP users should upgrade to the latest stable version:

    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv ">=www-apps/horde-imp-3.2.4"
    # emerge ">=www-apps/horde-imp-3.2.4"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-11.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.