Debian Security Advisory

DSA-756-1 squirrelmail -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
13 Jul 2005
Affected Packages:
squirrelmail
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 314374, Bug 317094.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1769, CVE-2005-2095.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Squirrelmail, a commonly used webmail system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CAN-2005-1769

    Martijn Brinkers discovered cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the URL and e-mail messages.

  • CAN-2005-2095

    James Bercegay of GulfTech Security discovered a vulnerability in the variable handling which could lead to attackers altering other people's preferences and possibly reading them, writing files at any location writable for www-data and cross site scripting.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.6-4.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.4-6sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.4-6sarge1.

We recommend that you upgrade your squirrelmail package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.2.6-4.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.2.6-4.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.2.6.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.2.6-4_all.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.4.4-6sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.4.4-6sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.4.4.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.4.4-6sarge1_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.