Detections
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CVE-2002-1271
critical
Description
The Mail::Mailer Perl module in the perl-MailTools package 1.47 and earlier uses mailx as the default mailer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by inserting them into the mail body, which is then processed by mailx.
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6104
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_041_perl_mailtools.html
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-076.php
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10548.php
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-386