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FreeBSD : rubygem-mail -- Remote Arbitrary Shell Command Injection Vulnerability (1cae628c-3569-11e0-8e81-0022190034c0)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51962

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Synopsis

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

Description

Secunia reports :

Input passed via an email from address is not properly sanitised in the 'deliver()' function (lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/sendmail.rb) before being used as a command line argument. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary shell commands.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a5e52760

http://www.nessus.org/u?6d34a663

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51962

File Name: freebsd_pkg_1cae628c356911e08e810022190034c0.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Published: 2/14/2011

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:rubygem-mail, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0739

BID: 46021

Secunia: 43077