Debian DSA-722-1 : smail - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow has been discovered in Smail, an electronic mail transport system, which allows remote attackers and local users to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian...

[SECURITY] [DSA 722-1] New smail packages fix arbitrary code execution

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 722-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze May 9th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

CVE-2005-0892

CVE-2005-0892 describes a buffer overflow in Smail 3.2.0.120 that enables remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary code via a long string in MAIL FROM (and possibly other SMTP commands). Public records show Debian advisories fixing this flaw: 3.2.0.114-4woody1 (stable) and 3.2.0.115-7...