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Debian DSA-194-1 : masqmail - buffer overflows

high Nessus Plugin ID 15031

Synopsis

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

Description

A set of buffer overflows have been discovered in masqmail, a mail transport agent for hosts without permanent internet connection. In addition to this privileges were dropped only after reading a user-supplied configuration file. Together this could be exploited to gain unauthorized root access to the machine on which masqmail is installed.

These problems have been fixed in version 0.1.16-2.1 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 0.2.15-1 for the unstable distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected since it doesn't contain a masqmail package.

Solution

Upgrade the masqmail package immediately.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-194

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 15031

File Name: debian_DSA-194.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:masqmail, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1279

DSA: 194