Executive Summary

Summary
Title New squirrelmail packages fix information disclosure
Informations
Name DSA-1154 First vendor Publication 2006-08-20
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2006-08-20
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 6.4 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research disovered a vulnerability in SquirrelMail where an authenticated user could overwrite random variables in the compose script. This might be exploited to read or write the preferences or attachment files of other users.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.4-9.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.8-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your squirrelmail package.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1154

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11533
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11533
Title: Dynamic variable evaluation vulnerability in compose.php in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 to 1.4.7 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary program variables and read or write the attachments and preferences of other users.
Description: Dynamic variable evaluation vulnerability in compose.php in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 to 1.4.7 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary program variables and read or write the attachments and preferences of other users.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-4019
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 15

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for squirrelmail FEDORA-2007-088
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_088_squirrelmail_fc5.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: ja-squirrelmail
File : nvt/freebsd_ja-squirrelmail0.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1154-1 (squirrelmail)
File : nvt/deb_1154_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
27917 SquirrelMail compose.php Arbitrary Variable Manipulation

Squirrelmail contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary variables in the file compose.php. It is possible that the flaw may allow user preferences or file attachments to be overwritten, resulting in a loss of integrity.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2006-0668.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-08-02 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2007-007.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-01-17 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2006-913.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1154.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-09-27 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2006-0668.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-09-27 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2006-0668.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-08-17 Name : The remote webmail application suffers from a data modification vulnerability.
File : squirrelmail_session_expired_post_overwrite.nasl - Type : ACT_ATTACK
2006-08-14 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_21b7c5502a2211dba6e2000e0c2e438a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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