Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New hypermail packages fix arbitrary code execution |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-248 | First vendor Publication | 2003-01-31 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2003-01-31 |
| 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:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 7.5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Ulf Harnhammar discovered two problems in hypermail, a program to create HTML archives of mailing lists. An attacker could craft a long filename for an attachment that would overflow two buffers when a certain option for interactive use was given, opening the possibility to inject arbitrary code. This code would then be executed under the user id hypermail runs as, mostly as a local user. Automatic and silent use of hypermail does not seem to be affected. The CGI program mail, which is not installed by the Debian package, does a reverse look-up of the user's IP number and copies the resulting hostname into a fixed-size buffer. A specially crafted DNS reply could overflow this buffer, opening the program to an exploit. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.3-2.0. For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0b25-1.1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.6-1. We recommend that you upgrade your hypermail packages. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-248 |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 248-1 (hypermail) File : nvt/deb_248_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 14560 | Hypermail Mail CGI Long Hostname Lookup Overflow |
| 14559 | Hypermail Long Attachment Filename Overflow |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2004-09-29 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-248.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-07-25 | Name : The remote host is missing a vendor-supplied security patch File : suse_SA_2003_0012.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-02-17 11:31:06 |
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