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Debian DSA-1204-1 : ingo1 - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22936

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that the Ingo email filter rules manager performs insufficient escaping of user-provided data in created procmail rules files, which allows the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

Solution

Upgrade the ingo1 package.

For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1sarge1.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396099

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1204

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22936

File Name: debian_DSA-1204.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2006

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ingo1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5449

DSA: 1204