Gentoo: GLSA-202311-12 Low: SquirrelMail Vulnerability Mitigation Steps
gentoo
November 17, 2004
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
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Squirrelmail fails to properly sanitize user input, which could lead to
a compromise of webmail accounts.
Background
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SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and
SMTP, and can optionally be installed with SQL support.
Affected packages
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1 mail-client/squirrelmail < 1.4.3a-r2 >= 1.4.3a-r2
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SquirrelMail fails to properly sanitize certain strings when decoding
specially-crafted headers.
Im...
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