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Secunia Advisory SA10493

Squirrelmail Address Parsing Execution of Arbitrary Commands
Secunia Advisory SA10493
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Release Date 2003-12-26
Last Update 2003-12-27
   
Popularity 11,038 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
SquirrelMail 1.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Squirrelmail, potentially allowing malicious users to execute arbitrary system commands.

The function "parseAddress()" parses email addresses in an insecure manner when encrypting emails. This may allow malicious users to include arbitrary system commands using shell meta characters like ";".

According to the vendor, the vulnerability affects Squirrelmail 1.4.0 and prior with GPG plug-in versions 1.1 and prior.


Solution
Update to version 1.4.2.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Bugtraq Security Systems

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Command Injection Issue in Squirrelmail
http://www.bugtraq.org/advisories/_BSSADV-0001.txt

Deep Links
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