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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:26:29 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>, coley <coley@...re.org>,
security-2012@...irrelmail.org
Subject: Re: Strange CVE situation (at least one ID should
come of this)
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On 10/26/2012 01:54 PM, Josh Bressers wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This Squirrelmail plugin came to my attention a few weeks back:
> http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=117
>
> It's from 2004, which is suspect in itself, but I took a look after
> someone asked. It's pretty scary in there.
>
> If I was to list the security problems I found after a few minutes
> of looking, they are:
>
> * It uses MD5 passwords
Going with this one since there's a good number of MD5 related CVE's
already.
Please use CVE-2012-5623 for this issue.
> * The shadow file is directly modified without locking (which could
> lead to a race condition) * If you get the password wrong, it
> doesn't unlink the empty temporary file.
>
> None are really a big deal, you *could* run this and probably never
> notice these problems.
>
> Fundamentally though, this thing should get one CVE ID that
> basically say "don't use this". How have situations like this been
> handled in the past?
>
> I mailed the Squirrelmail security team. They never responded.
> Regardless of their response though, the plugin site says it has
> been downloaded more than 100K times, so I suspect it's still in
> use somewhere. My goal in this CVE request is to raise awareness so
> hopefully people stop using this (and get the Squirrelmail guys to
> remove it from their site).
>
> Thanks.
>
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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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