-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1154-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff August 20th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : squirrelmail Vulnerability : variable overwriting Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-4019 James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research disovered a vulnerability in SquirrelMail where an authenticated user could overwrite random variables in the compose script. This might be exploited to read or write the preferences or attachment files of other users. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.4-9. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.8-1. We recommend that you upgrade your squirrelmail package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.4.4-9.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 678 de55f30e42570db82bec8aefe90093ac http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.4.4-9.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 25409 b9e9854e2702f34a7d5bede75942a391 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.4.4.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 575871 f50548b6f4f24d28afb5e6048977f4da Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_1.4.4-9_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 569078 1510859cc583447180b761ae38895191 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE6N1SXm3vHE4uyloRAtM9AJ0Q2WbKe5eiMpKlPAFtTR9s8V3J6gCfaMXA xsv481/mlpJlBEIE9u5DX7o= =5D0M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
