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Squirrelmail plugin.php Local File Inclusion Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA20406
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Release Date:
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2006-06-02
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Last Update:
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2006-07-07
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Popularity:
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11,523 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | SquirrelMail 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-2842
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Description:
Junker Broke has reported a vulnerability in Squirrelmail, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain sensitive information.
Input passed to the "plugins[]" parameter in functions/plugin.php is not properly sanitised before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.
Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled and "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.4.6 and prior.
Solution:
Update to version 1.4.7.
http://www.squirrelmail.org/download.php
Provided and/or discovered by:
Junker Broke
Changelog:
2006-06-08: Added CVE reference.
2006-07-07: Updated "Solution" section.
Original Advisory:
http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-06-01
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