Bug 239054 - mail-client/squirrelmail <1.4.16 Insecure cookie session hijacking (CVE-2008-3663)
Bug#: 239054 (CVE-2008-3663) Product:  Gentoo Security Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: minor Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: security@gentoo.org Reported By: rbu@gentoo.org
Component: Vulnerabilities
URL:  http://www.squirrelmail.org/
Summary: mail-client/squirrelmail <1.4.16 Insecure cookie session hijacking (CVE-2008-3663)
Keywords:  
Status Whiteboard: B4 [noglsa]
Opened: 2008-09-29 14:51 0000
Description:   Opened: 2008-09-29 14:51 0000 
CVE-2008-3663 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-3663):
  Squirrelmail 1.4.15 does not set the secure flag for the session
  cookie in an https session, which can cause the cookie to be sent in
  http requests and make it easier for remote attackers to capture this
  cookie.

------- Comment #1 From Robert Buchholz 2008-09-29 15:08:53 0000 ------- 
ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail 1.4.16 Released
Sep 28, 2008 by Thijs Kinkhorst

The SquirrelMail team is happy to announce the release 1.4.16. The most notable
change is that cookies are now sent with the secure attribute set for
HTTPS-connections, meaning that they cannot leak to an HTTP-connection on the
same SquirrelMail installation. For details see the included ReleaseNotes. We
advise users that offer their SquirrelMail both over HTTP and HTTPS to upgrade.

------- Comment #2 From Tobias Scherbaum 2008-10-01 19:00:22 0000 ------- 
1.4.16 in CVS.

------- Comment #3 From Tobias Scherbaum 2008-10-27 19:28:28 0000 ------- 
(In reply to comment #2)
> 1.4.16 in CVS.
> 

*ping*

------- Comment #4 From Robert Buchholz 2008-10-27 20:19:06 0000 ------- 
Arches, please test and mark stable:
=mail-client/squirrelmail-1.4.16
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"

------- Comment #5 From Brent Baude 2008-10-28 00:19:49 0000 ------- 
ppc64 done

------- Comment #6 From Richard Freeman 2008-10-29 02:00:35 0000 ------- 
amd64 stable

------- Comment #7 From Markus Meier 2008-10-29 22:15:10 0000 ------- 
x86 stable

------- Comment #8 From Raúl Porcel 2008-10-30 10:30:34 0000 ------- 
alpha/sparc stable

------- Comment #9 From Tobias Scherbaum 2008-10-30 19:16:21 0000 ------- 
ppc stable

------- Comment #10 From Tobias Heinlein 2008-10-31 21:34:08 0000 ------- 
Ready for vote, I vote YES.

------- Comment #11 From Robert Buchholz 2008-11-26 18:49:15 0000 ------- 
I vote NO on this bug. It's not worse than any of your XSS issues, allowing for
compromise of credentials when visiting a malicious link -- and more so, only
if someone can tap your link.

------- Comment #12 From Pierre-Yves Rofes 2008-11-26 22:19:28 0000 ------- 
no too and closing.