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Fedora Core 6 : squirrelmail-1.4.8-3.fc6 (2007-089)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 24225

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

http://squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-12-02 CVE-2006-6142 Cross site scripting in compose, draft & HTML mail viewing http://squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-12-03 Workaround for Internet Explorer MIME handling

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

Solution

Update the affected squirrelmail package.

See Also

http://squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-12-02

http://squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-12-03

http://www.nessus.org/u?a8326d7a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 24225

File Name: fedora_2007-089.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/18/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:squirrelmail, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/17/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-6142

FEDORA: 2007-089