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Gentoo: GLSA-202311-12 Low: SquirrelMail Vulnerability Mitigation Steps

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Calendar Grey November 17, 2004
Scroller Gentoo
Gentoo's SquirrelMail community is advised to apply a critical patch to address a serious XSS vulnerability that endangers user accounts in the webmail interface.
Squirrelmail fails to properly sanitize user input, which could lead to a compromise of webmail accounts.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-25 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: SquirrelMail: Encoded text XSS vulnerability Date: November 17, 2004 Bugs: #70739 ID: 200411-25

Synopsis ======= Squirrelmail fails to properly sanitize user input, which could lead to a compromise of webmail accounts.
Background ========= SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP, and can optionally be installed with SQL support.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mail-client/squirrelmail < 1.4.3a-r2 >= 1.4.3a-r2
========== SquirrelMail fails to properly sanitize certain strings when decoding specially-crafted headers.
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