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Debian Security Advisory DSA 141-1 (mpack)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.4

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/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 mpack announced via advisory DSA 141-1.

Insight

Insight

Eckehard Berns discovered a buffer overflow in the munpack program which is used for decoding (respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) format mail messages. If munpack is run on an appropriately malformed email (or news article) then it will crash, and perhaps can be made to run arbitrary code. Herbert Xu reported a second vulnerability which affected malformed filenames that refer to files in upper directories like ../a. The security impact is limited, though, because only a single leading ../ was accepted and only new files can be created (i.e. no files will be overwritten). Both problems were been fixed in version 1.5-5potato2 for the old stable distribution (potato), in version 1.5-7woody2 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 1.5-9 for the unstable distribution (sid). We recommend that you upgrade your mpack package immediately.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20141-1

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