Bug 1445165 – CVE-2017-7692 squirrelmail: Insufficient escaping of user-supplied data

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Bug 1445165 - (CVE-2017-7692) CVE-2017-7692 squirrelmail: Insufficient escaping of user-supplied data

Summary:	CVE-2017-7692 squirrelmail: Insufficient escaping of user-supplied data

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-7692

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1445166 1445167
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Reported:	2017-04-25 03:34 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-04-26 03:42 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-25 03:34:55 EDT

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.

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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 03:35:14 EDT

Created squirrelmail tracking bugs for this issue:

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

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-25 03:36:27 EDT

External References:

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

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