Debian Security Advisory

DSA-437-1 cgiemail -- open mail relay

Date Reported:
11 Feb 2004
Affected Packages:
cgiemail
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 5013.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-1575.
More information:

A vulnerability was discovered in cgiemail, a CGI program used to email the contents of 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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.