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Fedora 9: FEDORA-2009-5471 Critical: SquirrelMail Multiple Issues

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Improvement for SquirrelMail on Fedora 9 addresses previously identified problems and boosts overall security. Keep updated with the newest alerts.

Summary

SquirrelMail is a basic webmail package written in PHP4. It

includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and

all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no Javascript) for maximum

compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements and is very

easy to configure and install.

ChangeLog:

* Fri May 22 2009 Michal Hlavinka - 1.4.19-1

- updated to 1.4.19

- fixes CVE-2009-1579, CVE-2009-1580, CVE-2009-1581

* Tue May 19 2009 Michal Hlavinka - 1.4.18-2

- fix undefined variable aSpamIds (#501260)

* Tue May 12 2009 Michal Hlavinka - 1.4.18-1

- update to 1.4.18 (fixes CVE-2009-1581)

* Thu Dec 4 2008 Michal Hlavinka - 1.4.17-1

- update to 1.4.17 (fixes CVE-2008-2379)

* Wed Oct 1 2008 Michal Hlavinka - 1.4.16-1

- update to 1.4.16

- resolves: #464185: CVE-2008-3663 Squirrelmail session hijacking

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #502137 - CVE-2009-1381 squirrelmail: incomplete fix for CVE-2009-1579

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502137

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use

su -c 'yum update squirrelmail' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

http://fedoraproject.org/keys

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

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Name: squirrelmail
Product: Fedora 9
Version: 1.4.19
Release: 1.fc9
Summary: SquirrelMail webmail client

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