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Debian Security Advisory DSA 449-1 (metamail)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to metamail announced via advisory DSA 449-1.
Insight
Insight
Ulf Härnhammar discovered two format string bugs (CVE-2004-0104) and two buffer overflow bugs (CVE-2004-0105) in metamail, an implementation of MIME. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted mail message which will execute arbitrary code as the victim when it is opened and parsed through metamail. We have been devoting some effort to trying to avoid shipping metamail in the future. It became unmaintainable and these are probably not the last of the vulnerabilities. For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.7-45woody.2. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed in version 2.7-45.2. We recommend that you upgrade your metamail package.
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20449-1