Executive Summary

Summary
Title sendmail: Information disclosure
Informations
Name GLSA-201412-32 First vendor Publication 2014-12-22
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-12-22
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 1.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in sendmail could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information.

Background

sendmail is a widely-used Mail Transport Agent (MTA).

Description

The sm_close_on_exec function in conf.c has arguments in the wrong order.

Impact

A local attacker could get access to unintended high-numbered file descriptors via a specially crafted program.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All sendmail users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.9"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-3956 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3956

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-32.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-32.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-200 Information Exposure

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26065
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26065
Title: SUSE-SU-2014:0872-1 -- Security update for sendmail
Description: sendmail has been updated to fix the following security issue.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2014:0872-1
CVE-2014-3956
 Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
 Product(s): sendmail
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 77
Os 1
Os 297

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-04-10 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IJ03273.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-10 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IJ03121.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-10 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IJ02920.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-10 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IJ02919.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-10 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IJ02918.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-10 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IJ02917.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-10 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IJ02915.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-128.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-19 Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.
File : solaris11_sendmail_20141120.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-23 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-32.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-01 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-147.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-05 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_rmail-140604.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-20 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-7095.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-18 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-425.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-7093.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-06 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2014-156-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-03 Name : The remote mail server is affected by an SMTP connection manipulation vulnera...
File : sendmail_8_14_9.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-12-24 13:25:33
  • Multiple Updates
2014-12-22 17:22:47
  • First insertion