1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-201-1

USN-201-1: SqWebmail vulnerabilities

Publication date

12 October 2005

Overview

SqWebmail vulnerabilities

Releases

Details

Several Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities were discovered in
SqWebmail. A remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary
JavaScript or other active HTML embeddable content in the web browser
of an SqWebmail user by sending specially crafted emails to him.

Please note that the “sqwebmail” package is not officially supported
by Ubuntu (it is in the “universe” section of the archive).

Several Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities were discovered in
SqWebmail. A remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary
JavaScript or other active HTML embeddable content in the web browser
of an SqWebmail user by sending specially crafted emails to him.

Please note that the “sqwebmail” package is not officially supported
by Ubuntu (it is in the “universe” section of the archive).

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
5.04 hoary sqwebmail – 
4.10 warty sqwebmail – 

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