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RHEL 5 / 6 / 7 : procmail (RHSA-2014:1172)

high Nessus Plugin ID 77627

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated procmail packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The procmail program is used for local mail delivery. In addition to just delivering mail, procmail can be used for automatic filtering, presorting, and other mail handling jobs.

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in procmail's formail utility. A remote attacker could send an email with specially crafted headers that, when processed by formail, could cause procmail to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running formail.
(CVE-2014-3618)

All procmail users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected procmail and / or procmail-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1172

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3618

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 77627

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-1172.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/11/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:procmail-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:procmail, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3618

RHSA: 2014:1172