Debian Security Advisory

DSA-088-1 fml -- improper character escaping

Date Reported:

05 Dec 2001

Affected Packages:

fml

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 3623.

More information:

The fml (a mailing list package) as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffers from a cross-site scripting problem. When generating index pages for list archives the `<' and `>' characters were not properly escaped for subjects.

This has been fixed in version 3.0+beta.20000106-5, and we recommend that you upgrade your fml package to that version. Upgrading will automatically regenerate the index pages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/fml_3.0+beta.20000106-5.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/fml_3.0+beta.20000106-5.dsc; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/fml_3.0+beta.20000106.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/fml_3.0+beta.20000106-5_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.