Bug 202196 - CVE-2006-4019 Squirrelmail authenticated user variable overwriting
Summary: CVE-2006-4019 Squirrelmail authenticated user variable overwriting
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: squirrelmail
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Martin Bacovsky
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-08-11 14:40 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2008-03-09 06:00 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: squirrelmail-1.4.8-1.fc5
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-03-09 06:00:18 UTC
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-08-11 14:40:11 UTC 
Squirrelmail authenticated user variable overwriting

A bug was fixed in squirrelmail 1.4.8 which could allow a logged in
user to overwrite random variables in compose.php with arbitrary data.
This may allow a user to read or write another users preferences or
mail attachments.

More information can be found here:
http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-08-11
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2006-08-15 16:40:16 UTC 
squirrelmail-1.4.8-1.fc5 has been pushed for fc5, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.
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