GLSA 201001-08: SquirrelMail: Multiple vulnerabilities
| Severity: | high |
| Title: | SquirrelMail: Multiple vulnerabilities |
| Date: | 01/13/2010 |
| Bugs: | , |
| ID: | 201001-08 |
Synopsis
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in SquirrelMail of which the worst results in remote code execution.Background
SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP.
Affected packages
| Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| mail-client/squirrelmail | < 1.4.19 | >= 1.4.19 | All supported architectures |
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in SquirrelMail:
- Niels Teusink reported multiple input sanitation flaws in certain encrypted strings in e-mail headers, related to contrib/decrypt_headers.php, PHP_SELF and the query string (aka QUERY_STRING) (CVE-2009-1578).
- Niels Teusink also reported that the map_yp_alias() function in functions/imap_general.php does not filter shell metacharacters in a username and that the original patch was incomplete (CVE-2009-1381, CVE-2009-1579).
- Tomas Hoger discovered an unspecified session fixation vulnerability (CVE-2009-1580).
- Luc Beurton reported that functions/mime.php does not protect the application's content from Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) positioning in HTML e-mail messages (CVE-2009-1581).
Impact
The vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the web server, to hijack web sessions via a crafted cookie, to spoof the user interface and to conduct Cross-Site Scripting and phishing attacks, via a specially crafted message.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All SquirrelMail users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/squirrelmail-1.4.19"
References
Availability
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Concerns?
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License
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