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[Thomas Houssin <Thomas.Houssin AT gmail.com>]

Synopsis
========
Several cross site scripting vulnerabilties were discovered in squirrelmail.

Background
==========
SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4.
It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols,
and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no Javascript) for maximum
compatibility across browsers.

Description
===========
CAN-2005-1769:
Several cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilties have been discovered
in SquirrelMail versions 1.4.0 - 1.4.4.
The vulnerabilities are in two categories: the majority can be exploited
through URL manipulation, and some by sending a specially crafted email
to a victim. When done very carefully, this can cause the session of the
user to be hijacked.

Affected packages
=================
squirrelmail in all grimoires (devel, test, stable-rc and stable) is
affected.
This is now fixed in all grimoires (squirrelmail updated to 1.4.5-rc1).

Resolution
==========
All squirrelmail users should upgrade to the latest available version:
        # scribe update
        # cast -c squirrelmail

References
==========
  [ 1 ] Original Advisory
        http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2005-06-15
  [ 2 ] CAN-2005-1769
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1769

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Thomas Houssin

Security Team Leader Source Mage GNU/Linux (http://www.sourcemage.org)
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