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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1398-1 (perdition)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

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 perdition announced via advisory DSA 1398-1.

Insight

Insight

Bernhard Mueller of SEC Consult has discovered a format string vulnerability in perdition, an IMAP proxy. This vulnerabilty could allow an unauthenticated remote user to run arbitrary code on the perdition server by providing a specially formatted IMAP tag. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.17-7etch1 For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.15-5sarge1 We recommend that you upgrade your perdition package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201398-1

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