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If through a vulnerability assessment, a network security issue is detected for the vulnerability below, applying the appropriate security patches in a timely matter is very important. If you have detected that your system has already been compromised, following CERT's Network Security recovery document will assist with recommended steps for system recovery. Home >> Browse Vulnerability Assessment Database >> Debian Local Security Checks >> [DSA141] DSA-141-1 mpack Vulnerability Assessment Details
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[DSA141] DSA-141-1 mpack |
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DSA-141-1 mpack Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Eckehard Berns discovered a buffer overflow in the munpack program which is used for decoding (respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) format mail messages. If munpack is run on an appropriately malformed email (or news article) then it will crash, and perhaps can be made to run arbitrary code. Herbert Xu reported a second vulnerability which affected malformed filenames that refer to files in upper directories like "../a". The security impact is limited, though, because only a single leading "../" was accepted and only new files can be created (i.e. no files will be overwritten). Both problems have been fixed in version 1.5-5potato2 for the old stable distribution (potato), in version 1.5-7woody2 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 1.5-9 for the unstable distribution (sid). We recommend that you upgrade your mpack package immediately. Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-141 Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: 5385 Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi |
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