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Fedora 8 : squirrelmail-1.4.17-1.fc8 (2008-10918)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35048

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

update to 1.4.17 fixes XSS issue caused by an insufficient html mail sanitation

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Solution

Update the affected squirrelmail package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473877

http://www.nessus.org/u?7fc879fc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35048

File Name: fedora_2008-10918.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/8/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:squirrelmail, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2379

BID: 31321

CWE: 79

FEDORA: 2008-10918