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Debian DSA-468-1 : emil - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 15305

Synopsis

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

Description

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a number of vulnerabilities in emil, a filter for converting Internet mail messages. The vulnerabilities fall into two categories :

 - CAN-2004-0152 Buffer overflows in (1) the encode_mime function, (2) the encode_uuencode function, (3) the decode_uuencode function. These bugs could allow a carefully crafted email message to cause the execution of arbitrary code supplied with the message when it is acted upon by emil.

 - CAN-2004-0153

 Format string bugs in statements which print various error messages. The exploit potential of these bugs has not been established, and is probably configuration-dependent.

Solution

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-beta9-11woody1.

We recommend that you update your emil package.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-468

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 15305

File Name: debian_DSA-468.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0152, CVE-2004-0153

BID: 9974

DSA: 468