USN-4669-1: SquirrelMail vulnerability

Publication date

10 December 2020

Overview

SquirrelMail could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

Releases


Packages

Details

It was discovered that a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in
SquirrelMail allows remote attackers to use malicious script content from
HTML e-mail to execute code and/or provoke a denial of service.

It was discovered that a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in
SquirrelMail allows remote attackers to use malicious script content from
HTML e-mail to execute code and/or provoke a denial of service.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
16.04 xenial squirrelmail –  2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.16.04.2

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