Debian Security Advisory
DSA-386-1 libmailtools-perl -- input validation bug
- Date Reported:
- 18 Sep 2003
- Affected Packages:
- libmailtools-perl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 6104.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-1271. - More information:
-
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.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/libmailtools-perl_1.44-1woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/libmailtools-perl_1.44-1woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/libmailtools-perl_1.44.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/libmailtools-perl_1.44-1woody2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/libmailtools-perl_1.44-1woody2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/mailtools_1.44-1woody2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/mailtools_1.44-1woody2_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.