Bug 1445165 (CVE-2017-7692)

Summary:	CVE-2017-7692 squirrelmail: Insufficient escaping of user-supplied data
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-25 07:34:55 UTC

Squirrelmail is vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability because it fails to sanitize a string before passing it to a popen call. It's possible to exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary shell commands on the remote server.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/96
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Apr/81
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/114

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-25 07:35:14 UTC

Created squirrelmail tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1445166]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1445167]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-25 07:36:27 UTC

External References:

http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2017-04-24