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>> SquirrelMail HTML Message Remote Script Insertion Vulnerability

Title : SquirrelMail HTML Message Remote Script Insertion Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-3332
CVE ID : CVE-2008-2379
CWE ID : CWE-79
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-12-03


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A vulnerability has been identified in SquirrelMail, which could be exploited to conduct script insertion attacks. This issue is caused by an input validation error when processing HTML parts of e-mail messages, which could allow attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected site.

Affected Products

SquirrelMail version 1.4.16 and prior

Solution

Apply patch :
http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/functions/mime.php?r1=13276&r2=13338&view=patch

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3332
http://security-net.biz/wsw/index.php?p=254&n=190
http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2008-12-04

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Ivan Markovic.

ChangeLog

2008-12-03 : Initial release
2008-12-07 : Updated Solution

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