CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : squirrelmail (CESA-2009:0057)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35424

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

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.

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.

Solution

Update the affected squirrelmail package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35424

File Name: centos_RHSA-2009-0057.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 1/20/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

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: 1/19/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0030, CVE-2009-1580

CWE: 287

RHSA: 2009:0057

Detections

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