[Dailydave] SquirrelMail GPG Plugin vuln

[Stefan Esser]

> Version 2.1 of the SquirrelMail GPG Plugin was published yesterday. It
> blocks an attack vector I found after your mail while quickly grep'ing
> for dangerous PHP calls.

Version 2.1 of the plugin contains several more shell command execution 
vulnerabilities and the vendor is aware of this.

And yes grepping for a few dangerous PHP calls is not that hard and you
will sooner or later find these bugs. However to quote Halvar: 
"Auditing is not supergrep. "

The real challenge with the SquirrelMail GPG Plugin vulnerabilties is not 
to find them after you got a hint that they exist. The challenge is to find
out that (and how) you can launch them (at least some of them) PRE-AUTH.

I really wonder if the auctionned bug is pre-auth or post-auth. I guess the
later because otherwise they would have mentioned it.

> Giving out some much information was really stupid ...

Isn't that always the point when you sell a vulnerability in an open source
software? If I want to sell you a lighttpd remote exploit and you trust me 
than you know that such a thing exists and you will most probably invest
more time in finding it yourself. The knowledge that something exploitable
really exists is a good motivation to find it.

Stefan