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Red Hat: RHSA-2009-1490-01 Moderate: Fix CSRF Security Flaw in SquirrelMail

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Calendar Grey October 8, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Linux Mint announces a critical update for Thunderbird, addressing XSS vulnerabilities, deemed as high risk to user safety.
An updated squirrelmail package that fixes several security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP.
Form submissions in SquirrelMail did not implement protection against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. If a remote attacker tricked a user into visiting a malicious web page, the attacker could hijack that user's authentication, inject malicious content into that user's preferences, or possibly send mail without that user's permission. (CVE-2009-2964)
Users of SquirrelMail should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct these issues.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat squirrelmail moderate impact CSRF

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2964 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
noarch: squirrelmail-1.4.8-16.el3.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Desktop version 3:
Source:
noarch: squirrelmail-1.4.8-16.el3.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3:
Source:
noarch: squirrelmail-1.4.8-16.el3.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3:
Source:
noarch: squirrelmail-1.4.8-16.el3.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:
Source:
noarch: squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el4_8.8.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4:
Source:
noarch: squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el4_8.8.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4:
Source:
noarch: squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el4_8.8.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4:
Source:
noarch: squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el4_8.8.noarch.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
noarch: squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el5_4.10.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
noarch: squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el5_4.10.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package


Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:1490-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1490.html
Issue date: 2009-10-08

Topic

An updated squirrelmail package that fixes several security issues is nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat squirrelmail moderate impact CSRF

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - noarch

Red Hat Desktop version 3 - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

517312 - CVE-2009-2964 squirrelmail: CSRF issues in all forms

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