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Debian DSA-1236-1 : enemies-of-carlotta - missing sanity checks

medium Nessus Plugin ID 23849

Synopsis

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

Description

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho discovered that enemies-of-carlotta, a simple manager for mailing lists, does not properly sanitise email addresses before passing them through to the system shell.

Solution

Upgrade the enemies-of-carlotta package.

For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.3-1sarge1.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1236

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 23849

File Name: debian_DSA-1236.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:enemies-of-carlotta, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5875

DSA: 1236