Debian DSA-373-1 : autorespond - buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 15210

Synopsis

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

Description

Christian Jaeger discovered a buffer overflow in autorespond, an email autoresponder used with qmail. This vulnerability could potentially be exploited by a remote attacker to gain the privileges of a user who has configured qmail to forward messages to autorespond. This vulnerability is currently not believed to be exploitable due to incidental limits on the length of the problematic input, but there may be situations in which these limits do not apply.

Solution

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.2-2woody1.

We recommend that you update your autorespond package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 15210

File Name: debian_DSA-373.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/16/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0654

BID: 8436

DSA: 373

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