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Debian DSA-1981-1 : maildrop - privilege escalation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44845

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the maildrop packages.

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.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=564601

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1981

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44845

File Name: debian_DSA-1981.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:maildrop, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/28/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0301

CWE: 264

DSA: 1981