Bug 1021964 (CVE-2013-6172) - CVE-2013-6172 roundcubemail: vulnerability in handling _session argument of utils/save-prefs
Summary: CVE-2013-6172 roundcubemail: vulnerability in handling _session argument of u...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-6172
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1021735 1021965
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-22 12:24 UTC by Ratul Gupta
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:09 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: roundcubemail 0.9.5
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-11-05 18:41:11 UTC
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Description Ratul Gupta 2013-10-22 12:24:36 UTC 
Roundcubemail, a browser-based multilingual IMAP client, was found to have a vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to overwrite configuration settings using user preferences, that can result in random file access, manipulated SQL queries or even remote code execution (0.8.6 and older).

The issues are said to be fixed in the latest release, 0.9.5.

References:
http://roundcube.net/news/2013/10/21/security-updates-095-and-087/
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488994
Comment 1 Ratul Gupta 2013-10-22 12:25:38 UTC 
Created roundcubemail tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1021965]
Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2013-11-05 18:41:11 UTC 
Upstream bug report and patch:

http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1489382
http://trac.roundcube.net/changeset/70c7df8faa5a9023a2773dc5a38932f1ad3a84aa/github

This was fixed in Fedora and EPEL via roundcubemail-0.9.5-1.
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