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Gentoo: GLSA-200501-39 High: SquirrelMail Code Execution

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Calendar Grey January 28, 2005
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Vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail permit arbitrary code execution, risking your webmail credentials. Update immediately to safeguard your accounts.
SquirrelMail fails to properly sanitize user input, which could lead to arbitrary code execution and compromise webmail accounts.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-39 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: SquirrelMail: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: January 28, 2005 Bugs: #78116 ID: 200501-39

Synopsis ======= SquirrelMail fails to properly sanitize user input, which could lead to arbitrary code execution and compromise 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 >= 1.4.4
========== SquirrelMail fails to properly sanitize certain strings when decoding specially-crafted strings, which can lead to PH...

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