Debian DLA-941-1 : squirrelmail security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 100176

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Dawid Golunski and Filippo Cavallarin discovered that squirrelmail, a webmail application, incorrectly handled a user-supplied value. This would allow a logged-in user to run arbitrary commands on the server.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your squirrelmail packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected squirrelmail package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/05/msg00012.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/squirrelmail

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100176

File Name: debian_DLA-941.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squirrelmail, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7692