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:
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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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiemail/cgiemail_1.6-14woody1.diff.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.