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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 >> SuSE Local Security Checks >> SUSE-SA:2003:0012: hypermail Vulnerability Assessment Details
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Check for the version of the hypermail package Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2003:0012 (hypermail). Hypermail is a tool to convert a Unix mail-box file to a set of cross- referenced HTML documents. During an internal source code review done by Thomas Biege several bugs where found in hypermail and its tools. These bugs permit remote code execution, local tmp race conditions, denial-of-service conditions and read access to files belonging to the host hypermail is running on. Additionally the mail CGI program can be abused by spammers as email- relay and should thus be disabled. There is no temporary fix known other then disabling hypermail. Please download and install the new packages from our FTP servers. Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement. Then, install the package using the command 'rpm -Fhv file.rpm' to apply the update. Solution : http://www.suse.de/security/2003_12_hypermail.html Network Security Threat Level: Medium Networks Security ID: 6689, 6690 Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2004 Tenable Network Security |
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