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[DSA386] DSA-386-1 libmailtools-perl

Family:

Debian Local Security Checks

Category:

infos

Copyright:

This script is (C) 2004 Michel Arboi

Summary:

DSA-386-1 libmailtools-perl

Version:

$Revision: 1.4 $

Cve_id:

CVE-2002-1271

Bugtraq_id:

6104

Xrefs:

DSA:386

Description:

The SuSE security team discovered during an audit a bug in
Mail::Mailer, 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 : http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-386
Risk factor : High