Bug 500360 (CVE-2009-1579)

Summary:	CVE-2009-1579 SquirrelMail: Server-side code injection in map_yp_alias username map
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	azelinka, dkovalsk, jscotka, kreilly, mhlavink, rcvalle
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2009-05-10
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Bug Depends On:	500790, 500791, 500792, 500793, 500794, 833981
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2009-05-12 12:43:04 UTC

From SquirrelMail vulnerability report:

An issue was fixed that allowed arbitrary server-side code execution when SquirrelMail was configured to use the example "map_yp_alias" username mapping functionality.

Credits: Niels Teusink

Updated upstream patch (2009-05-21):
http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/functions/imap_general.php?r1=13549&r2=13733&view=patch

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2009-05-12 13:07:22 UTC

squirrelmail-1.4.18-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/squirrelmail-1.4.18-1.fc9

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-05-13 00:20:50 UTC

squirrelmail-1.4.18-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-05-13 00:22:25 UTC

squirrelmail-1.4.18-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-05-13 00:23:41 UTC

squirrelmail-1.4.18-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-05-14 18:05:59 UTC

CVE-2009-1579:

The map_yp_alias function in functions/imap_general.php in
SquirrelMail before 1.4.18 allows remote attackers to execute
arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a username string that
is used by the ypmatch program.

Comment 8 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-05-21 18:08:48 UTC

CVE-2009-1381 (incomplete upstream fix for CVE-2009-1579) now public:

http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2009-05-10

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2009-05-26 17:31:17 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1066 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1066.html