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Debian DSA-2889-1 : postfixadmin - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73254

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Synopsis

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

Description

A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in postfixadmin, a web administration interface for the Postfix Mail Transport Agent, which allowed authenticated users to make arbitrary manipulations to the database.

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) does not contain postfixadmin.

Solution

Upgrade the postfixadmin packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.5-2+deb7u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/postfixadmin

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2889

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73254

File Name: debian_DSA-2889.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/31/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postfixadmin, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2655

BID: 66455

DSA: 2889