Executive Summary

Summary
Title squirrelmail security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2009:0057 First vendor Publication 2009-01-19
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2009-01-19
Severity (Vendor) Important Revision 01

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
 
Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
Calculate full CVSS 2.0 Vectors scores

Detail

Problem Description:

An updated squirrelmail package that fixes a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5.

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

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 - noarch Red Hat Desktop version 3 - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - noarch RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - noarch

3. Description:

SquirrelMail is an easy-to-configure, standards-based, webmail package written in PHP. It includes built-in PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and pure HTML 4.0 page-rendering (with no JavaScript required) for maximum browser-compatibility, strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.

The Red Hat SquirrelMail packages provided by the RHSA-2009:0010 advisory introduced a session handling flaw. Users who logged back into SquirrelMail without restarting their web browsers were assigned fixed session identifiers. A remote attacker could make use of that flaw to hijack user sessions. (CVE-2009-0030)

SquirrelMail users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a patch to correct this issue. As well, all users who used affected versions of SquirrelMail should review their preferences.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

480224 - Squirrelmail session management broken by security backport 480488 - CVE-2009-0030 squirrelmail: session management flaw

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0057.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-287 Improper Authentication

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10366
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10366
Title: A certain Red Hat patch for SquirrelMail 1.4.8 sets the same SQMSESSID cookie value for all sessions, which allows remote authenticated users to access other users' folder lists and configuration data in opportunistic circumstances by using the standard webmail.php interface. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3663.
Description: A certain Red Hat patch for SquirrelMail 1.4.8 sets the same SQMSESSID cookie value for all sessions, which allows remote authenticated users to access other users' folder lists and configuration data in opportunistic circumstances by using the standard webmail.php interface. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3663.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2009-0030
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for squirrelmail CESA-2009:0057 centos3 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0057_squirrelmail_centos3_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for squirrelmail CESA-2009:0057 centos4 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0057_squirrelmail_centos4_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for squirrelmail CESA-2009:0057 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0057_squirrelmail_centos5_i386.nasl
2009-02-18 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:004
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_004.nasl
2009-01-20 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0057
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_0057.nasl
2009-01-20 Name : CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:0057 (squirrelmail)
File : nvt/ovcesa2009_0057.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
51537 SquirrelMail on Red Hat Global SQMSESSID Cookie Arbitrary Session Access

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-0057.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20090119_squirrelmail_on_SL3_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-10-20 Name : The remote SuSE system is missing the security patch firefox35upgrade-6562
File : suse_firefox35upgrade-6562.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-02-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_squirrelmail-5978.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-20 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2009-0057.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-20 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-0057.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

If you want to see full details history, please login or register.
0
1
Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:52:13
  • Multiple Updates
2013-05-11 00:50:41
  • Multiple Updates