Bug 464183 (CVE-2008-3663) - CVE-2008-3663 squirrelmail: session hijacking - secure flag not set for HTTPS-only cookies
Summary: CVE-2008-3663 squirrelmail: session hijacking - secure flag not set for HTTPS...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-3663
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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Depends On: 464184 464185 464186 468398 473288 473289 473290 473291 833979
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-26 15:46 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:26 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-01-12 14:48:12 UTC
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Upsteam patch for posterity sake (13.15 KB, patch)
2008-10-24 21:53 UTC, Josh Bressers 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0010 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: squirrelmail security update 2009-01-12 14:26:41 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2008-09-26 15:46:14 UTC 
Squirrelmail 1.4.15 does not set the secure flag for the session
cookie in an https session, which can cause the cookie to be sent in
http requests and make it easier for remote attackers to capture this
cookie.

Reference: BUGTRAQ:20080922 Squirrelmail: Session hijacking vulnerability, CVE-2008-3663
Reference: URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/496601/100/0/threaded
Reference: MISC:http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2008-3663-squirrelmail.html
Reference: BID:31321
Reference: URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31321
Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2008-09-30 07:00:25 UTC 
Upstream SVN commit addressing this issue:

http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail?view=rev&revision=13290
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-10-23 16:35:45 UTC 
squirrelmail-1.4.16-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Josh Bressers 2008-10-24 21:53:37 UTC 
Created attachment 321469 [details]
Upsteam patch for posterity sake
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-10-24 23:48:11 UTC 
squirrelmail-1.4.16-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 11 Tomas Hoger 2008-11-27 14:55:43 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
  http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2008-09-28
Comment 14 Red Hat Product Security 2009-01-12 14:48:12 UTC 
This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0010.html

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8559
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