Debian Security Advisory

DSA-791-1 maildrop -- missing privilege release

Date Reported:
30 Aug 2005
Affected Packages:
maildrop
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 325135.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2655.
More information:

Max Vozeler discovered that the lockmail program from maildrop, a simple mail delivery agent with filtering abilities, does not drop group privileges before executing commands given on the commandline, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands with privileges of the group mail.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.3-1.1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.3-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your maildrop package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1_sparc.deb

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