TITLE:
Open WebMail "vacation.pl" Arbitrary Program Execution Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12017

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12017/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Open WebMail 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3167/
Open WebMail 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/793/

DESCRIPTION:
Ken Girrard has reported a vulnerability in Open WebMail, which can
be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary application.

The vulnerability is caused due to the "vacation.pl" script opening
list files without checking their existence.

Successful exploitation executes an arbitrary program on the server
with the privileges of the apache process.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.32 after 2004-06-29 or apply patch.

Patch:
http://openwebmail.org/openwebmail/download/cert/patches/SA-04:04/vacation.pl.patch

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Ken Girrard

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=2640281

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