Debian Security Advisory
mailx -- mail group exploit in mailx
- Date Reported:
- 05 Jun 2000
- Affected Packages:
- mailx
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2000-0545.
- More information:
- The version of mailx distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (a.k.a. slink), as well as in the frozen (potato) and unstable (woody) distributions is vulnerable to a local buffer overflow while sending messages. This could be exploited to give a shell running with group "mail". This has been fixed in version 8.1.1-10.1, and we recommend that you update your mailx package immediately.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (slink)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/source/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/source/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/source/mailx_8.1.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/source/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.dsc
- alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/binary-alpha/mailx_8.1.1-10.1_alpha.deb
- i386:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/binary-i386/mailx_8.1.1-10.1_i386.deb
- m68k:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/binary-m68k/mailx_8.1.1-10.1_m68k.deb
- sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/binary-sparc/mailx_8.1.1-10.1_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/main/updates/source/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/main/updates/source/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/main/updates/source/mailx_8.1.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/main/updates/source/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.dsc
- alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/main/updates/binary-alpha/mailx_8.1.1-10.1_alpha.deb
- i386:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/main/updates/binary-i386/mailx_8.1.1-10.1_i386.deb
- m68k:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/main/updates/binary-m68k/mailx_8.1.1-10.1_m68k.deb
- sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/main/updates/binary-sparc/mailx_8.1.1-10.1_sparc.deb