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...

CVE-2005-0893

CVE-2005-0893 affects Smail, specifically version 3.2.0.120, where modes.c implements signal handlers using certain unsafe library calls. The root cause described is that these unsafe calls in signal handlers can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code via race conditions in the signal handli...