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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55332
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Legacy Security Advisory FLSA-2005:163047
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory FLSA-2005:163047.

A bug was found in the way SquirrelMail handled the $_POST variable. If
a user is tricked into visiting a malicious URL, the user's SquirrelMail
preferences could be read or modified. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-2095 to this issue.

Several cross-site scripting bugs were discovered in SquirrelMail. An
attacker could inject arbitrary Javascript or HTML content into
SquirrelMail pages by tricking a user into visiting a carefully crafted
URL, or by sending them a carefully constructed HTML email message. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name
CVE-2005-1769 to this issue.

All users of SquirrelMail should upgrade to this updated package, which
contains backported patches that resolve these issues.

Affected platforms:
Redhat 9
Fedora Core 1
Fedora Core 2

Solution:
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FLSA-2005:163047

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
4.3

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1769
20050616 [SM-ANNOUNCE] Patch fixes SquirrelMail cross site scripting vulnerabilities [CAN-2005-1769]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111893827711390&w=2
APPLE-SA-2005-08-15
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
APPLE-SA-2005-08-17
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
DSA-756
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-756
FLSA:163047
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163047
MDKSA-2005:108
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:108
RHSA-2005:595
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-595.html
SUSE-SR:2005:018
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2005-06-15
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9852
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9852
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2095
14254
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14254
20050714 SquirrelMail Arbitrary Variable Overwriting Vulnerability
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/405202
20050714 [SM-ANNOUNCE] Patch available for CAN-2005-2095
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/405200
http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00090-07142005
http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2005-07-13
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10500
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10500
squirrelmail-set-post-variable(21359)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21359
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