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Debian Security Advisory DSA 386-1 (libmailtools-perl)

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 libmailtools-perl announced via advisory DSA 386-1.

Insight

Insight

The SuSE security team discovered during an audit that the Mail::Mailer module, a Perl module used for sending email, whereby potentially untrusted input is passed to a program such as mailx, which may interpret certain escape sequences as commands to be executed. This bug has been fixed by removing support for programs such as mailx as a transport for sending mail. Instead, alternative mechanisms are used. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.44-1woody1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you update your libmailtools-perl package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20386-1

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