Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1981-1 maildrop -- privilege escalation
- Date Reported:
- 28 Jan 2010
- Affected Packages:
- maildrop
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 564601.
- More information:
-
Christoph Anton Mitterer discovered that maildrop, a mail delivery agent with filtering abilities, is prone to a privilege escalation issue that grants a user root group privileges.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.2-11+etch1.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.4-3+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your maildrop packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2.orig.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_ia64.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_s390.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4.orig.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_s390.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.