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Debian DSA-449-1 : metamail - buffer overflow, format string bugs

high Nessus Plugin ID 15286

Synopsis

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

Description

Ulf Harnhammar discovered two format string bugs ( CAN-2004-0104) and two buffer overflow bugs ( CAN-2004-0105) in metamail, an implementation of MIME. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted mail message which will execute arbitrary code as the victim when it is opened and parsed through metamail.

We have been devoting some effort to trying to avoid shipping metamail in the future. It became unmaintainable and these are probably not the last of the vulnerabilities.

Solution

Upgrade the metamail package.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.7-45woody.2.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-449

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 15286

File Name: debian_DSA-449.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:metamail, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/24/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0104, CVE-2004-0105

BID: 9692

CERT: 513062, 518518

DSA: 449