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Debian Security Advisory DSA 186-1 (log2mail)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to log2mail announced via advisory DSA 186-1.

Insight

Insight

Enrico Zini discovered a buffer overflow in log2mail, a daemon for watching logfiles and sending lines with matching patterns via mail. The log2mail daemon is started upon system boot and runs as root. A specially crafted (remote) log message could overflow a static buffer, potentially leaving log2mail to execute arbitrary code as root. This problem has been fixed in version 0.2.5.1 the current stable distribution (woody) and in version for the unstable distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected since it doesn't contain a log2mail package We recommend that you upgrade your log2mail package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20186-1

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