Fedora 9 : squirrelmail-1.4.18-1.fc9 (2009-4870)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38748

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue May 12 2009 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com>
- 1.4.18-1

- update to 1.4.18 (fixes CVE-2009-1581)

- Thu Dec 4 2008 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com> - 1.4.17-1

- update to 1.4.17 (fixes CVE-2008-2379)

- Wed Oct 1 2008 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com> - 1.4.16-1

- update to 1.4.16

- resolves: #464185: CVE-2008-3663 Squirrelmail session hijacking

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected squirrelmail package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500356

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500358

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500360

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500363

http://www.nessus.org/u?e9d75ec7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38748

File Name: fedora_2009-4870.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:squirrelmail, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/12/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1578, CVE-2009-1579, CVE-2009-1580, CVE-2009-1581

CWE: 287, 79, 94

FEDORA: 2009-4870