Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4168-1 squirrelmail -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 08 Apr 2018
- Affected Packages:
- squirrelmail
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 893202.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-8741. - More information:
-
Florian Grunow and Birk Kauer of ERNW discovered a path traversal vulnerability in SquirrelMail, a webmail application, allowing an authenticated remote attacker to retrieve or delete arbitrary files via mail attachment.
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u2.
We recommend that you upgrade your squirrelmail packages.
For the detailed security status of squirrelmail please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/squirrelmail