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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.5.3-1.1sarge1.diff.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.