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RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : squirrelmail (RHSA-2009:1490)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 42077

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated squirrelmail package that fixes several 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 PHP.

Form submissions in SquirrelMail did not implement protection against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. If a remote attacker tricked a user into visiting a malicious web page, the attacker could hijack that user's authentication, inject malicious content into that user's preferences, or possibly send mail without that user's permission. (CVE-2009-2964)

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

Solution

Update the affected squirrelmail package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2009-2964

http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2009-08-12

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1490

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 42077

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-1490.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squirrelmail, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2964

BID: 36196

CWE: 352

RHSA: 2009:1490