Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New mpack packages fix buffer overflow |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-141 | First vendor Publication | 2002-08-01 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2002-08-01 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 6.4 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 4.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Eckehard Berns discovered a buffer overflow in the munpack program which is used for decoding (respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) format mail messages. If munpack is run on an appropriately malformed email (or news article) then it will crash, and perhaps can be made to run arbitrary code. Herbert Xu reported a second vulnerability which affected malformed filenames that refer to files in upper directories like "../a". The security impact is limited, though, because only a single leading "../" was accepted and only new files can be created (i.e. no files will be overwritten). Both problems were been fixed in version 1.5-5potato2 for the old stable distribution (potato), in version 1.5-7woody2 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 1.5-9 for the unstable distribution (sid). We recommend that you upgrade your mpack package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-141 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 141-1 (mpack) File : nvt/deb_141_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 6194 | mpack munpack MIME Encoded Mail Overflow |
| 6193 | mpack munpack Arbitrary File Creation |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2004-09-29 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-141.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-02-17 11:27:01 |
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