CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : squirrelmail (CESA-2007:0358)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25257

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

A new squirrelmail package that fixes security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4.

Several HTML filtering bugs were discovered in SquirrelMail. An attacker could inject arbitrary JavaScript leading to cross-site scripting attacks by sending an e-mail viewed by a user within SquirrelMail. (CVE-2007-1262)

Squirrelmail did not sufficiently check arguments to IMG tags in HTML e-mail messages. This could be exploited by an attacker by sending arbitrary e-mail messages on behalf of a squirrelmail user tricked into opening a maliciously crafted HTML e-mail message.
(CVE-2007-2589)

Users of SquirrelMail should upgrade to this erratum package, which contains a backported patch to correct these issues.

Solution

Update the affected squirrelmail package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1fa0b1e8

http://www.nessus.org/u?78ffc8db

http://www.nessus.org/u?dff2ed37

http://www.nessus.org/u?817b7615

http://www.nessus.org/u?ea2099b6

http://www.nessus.org/u?d61655af

http://www.nessus.org/u?e20cf8ac

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25257

File Name: centos_RHSA-2007-0358.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:squirrelmail, cpe:/o:centos:centos:3, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1262, CVE-2007-2589

CWE: 352, 79

RHSA: 2007:0358