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Debian Security Advisory DSA 4168-1 (squirrelmail - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Florian Grunow and Birk Kauer of ERNW discovered a path traversal vulnerability in SquirrelMail, a webmail application, allowing an authenticated remote attacker to retrieve or delete arbitrary files via mail attachment.
Affected Software
Affected Software
squirrelmail on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u2. We recommend that you upgrade your squirrelmail packages. For the detailed security status of squirrelmail please refer to its security tracker page linked in the references.