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Scientific Linux 5.x SquirrelMail Critical Session Hijacking CVE-2009-0030

Calendar Jan 21, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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Important: squirrelmail security update 
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:05:18 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: FASTBUGS for SL 5.x i386/x86_64
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The following FASTBUGS have been uploaded to

NOTE: These are fastbugs that came out before Update 3 was released.

 i386:
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.88.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
cman-2.0.84-2.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
cman-devel-2.0.84-2.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
krb5-devel-1.6.1-25.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
krb5-libs-1.6.1-25.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
krb5-server-1.6.1-25.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
krb5-workstation-1.6.1-25.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
xterm-215-8.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.88.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
cman-2.0.84-2.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
cman-devel-2.0.84-2.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
cman-devel-2.0.84-2.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
krb5-devel-1.6.1-25.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
krb5-devel-1.6.1-25.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
krb5-libs-1.6.1-25.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
krb5-libs-1.6.1-25.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
krb5-server-1.6.1-25.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
krb5-workstation-1.6.1-25.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
xterm-215-8.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:43:28 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: squirrelmail on SL3.x, SL4.x,
 SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: squirrelmail security update
Issue date:	2009-01-19
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-0030

The Red Hat SquirrelMail packages provided by the RHSA-2009:0010 advisory
introduced a session handling flaw. Users who logged back into SquirrelMail
without restarting their web browsers were assigned fixed session
identifiers. A remote attacker could make use of that flaw to hijack user
sessions. (CVE-2009-0030)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
squirrelmail-1.4.8-9.el3.src.rpm
 i386:
squirrelmail-1.4.8-9.el3.noarch.rpm
 x86_64:
squirrelmail-1.4.8-9.el3.noarch.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el4_7.3.src.rpm
 i386:
squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el4_7.3.noarch.rpm
 x86_64:
squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el4_7.3.noarch.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el5_2.3.src.rpm
 i386:
squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el5_2.3.noarch.rpm
 x86_64:
squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el5_2.3.noarch.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson