Bug 500356 (CVE-2009-1581) - CVE-2009-1581 SquirrelMail: CSS positioning vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2009-1581 SquirrelMail: CSS positioning vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2009-1581
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/...
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Depends On: 500790 500791 500792 500793 500794 833981
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-12 12:33 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:30 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-05-26 17:47:47 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:1066 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: squirrelmail security update 2009-05-26 17:31:13 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2009-05-12 12:33:30 UTC 
From Squirrelmail vulnerability report:

An issue was fixed that allowed phishing and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks to be run by surreptitious placement of content in specially-crafted emails sent to SquirrelMail users.

Credits: Luc Beurton

Patch: 
http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail?view=rev&revision=13667
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2009-05-12 13:07:32 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 00:20:59 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 00:22:34 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 00:23:50 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 6 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-05-14 18:08:24 UTC 
CVE-2009-1581:

functions/mime.php in SquirrelMail before 1.4.18 does not protect the
application's content from Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) positioning in
HTML e-mail messages, which allows remote attackers to spoof the user
interface, and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) and phishing
attacks, via a crafted message.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-05-26 17:31:19 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
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