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CentOS Update for procmail CESA-2014:1172 centos6

🗓️ 11 Sep 2014 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2014 Greenbone AGType 
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CentOS Update for procmail CESA-2014:1172 centos6. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in procmail's formail utility. All procmail users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882022");
  script_version("2023-07-11T05:06:07+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-11 05:06:07 +0000 (Tue, 11 Jul 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2014-09-11 05:58:30 +0200 (Thu, 11 Sep 2014)");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-3618");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_name("CentOS Update for procmail CESA-2014:1172 centos6");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"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.");
  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"procmail on CentOS 6");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated packages.");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_xref(name:"CESA", value:"2014:1172");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-September/020550.html");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'procmail'
  package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2014 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("CentOS Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/centos", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=CentOS6");
  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
  exit(0);

res = "";

if(release == "CentOS6")
{

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"procmail", rpm:"procmail~3.22~25.1.el6_5.1", rls:"CentOS6")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if (__pkg_match) exit(99);
  exit(0);
}

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11 Sep 2014 00:00Current
9.6High risk
Vulners AI Score9.6
CVSS27.5
EPSS0.083
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