Gentoo: GLSA-201001-08: SquirrelMail: Multiple vulnerabilities
Summary
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).
Resolution
All SquirrelMail users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/squirrelmail-1.4.19"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2009-1381 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1381 [ 2 ] CVE-2009-1578 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1578 [ 3 ] CVE-2009-1579 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1579 [ 4 ] CVE-2009-1580 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1580 [ 5 ] CVE-2009-1581 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1581
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201001-08
Concerns
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mail-client/squirrelmail < 1.4.19 >= 1.4.19
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.