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Debian Security Advisory DSA 437-1 (cgiemail)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

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 cgiemail announced via advisory DSA 437-1.

Insight

Insight

A vulnerability was discovered in cgiemail, a CGI program used to email the contentsof an HTML form, whereby it could be used to send email to arbitrary addresses. This type of vulnerability is commonly exploited to send unsolicited commercial email (spam). For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.6-14woody1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6-20. We recommend that you update your cgiemail package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20437-1

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