mailx: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A utility program for sending and receiving mail, also known as a Mail User Agent program. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mailx. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands...

Solaris 10 (sparc) : 148870-01

Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Products Suite subcomponent: mailx1. Supported versions that are affected are 8, 9, 10 and 11. Difficult to exploit vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update,...

Solaris 10 (x86) : 148871-01

Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Products Suite subcomponent: mailx1. Supported versions that are affected are 8, 9, 10 and 11. Difficult to exploit vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update,...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Mailx vulnerabilities (K16945)

CVE-2014-7844 The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell meta characters in an email address. CVE-2004-2771 A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email addresses...

CVE-2017-5899

Directory traversal vulnerability in the setuid root helper binary in S-nail later S-mailx before 14.8.16 allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges via a .. dot dot in the randstr argument...

Directory traversal

Directory traversal vulnerability in the setuid root helper binary in S-nail later S-mailx before 14.8.16 allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges via a .. dot dot in the randstr argument...

CVE-2017-5899

CVE-2017-5899 affects S-nail (later S-mailx) up to version 14.8.16. The vulnerability is a directory traversal in the setuid root helper binary invoked by randstr, allowing a local attacker to write to arbitrary files and escalate to root. Public advisories (e.g., Ubuntu USN-4820-1) confirm the p...

CVE-2017-5899

Directory traversal vulnerability in the setuid root helper binary in S-nail later S-mailx before 14.8.16 allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges via a .. dot dot in the randstr argument...

S-nail Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

S-nail is a mail processing system that provides the functionality of the POSIX mailx command. It is installed by default on archlinux and enabled on ubuntu when mailx is needed. S-nail suffers from a local elevation of privilege vulnerability. A local attacker can exploit the vulnerability to ga...

[slackware-security] mailx

New mailx packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-2slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Drop SSLv2 support no longer supported by OpenSSL, and fix security...

Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / 14.1 / current : mailx (SSA:2016-062-01)

New mailx packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2016-062-01. The text itse...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2014-1999)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2015-467)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SOL16945 - Mailx vulnerabilities CVE-2004-2771 and CVE-2014-7844

CVE-2014-7844 The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell meta characters in an email address. CVE-2004-2771 A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email addresses...

Vulnerabilities of the CentOS operating system that allow malicious actors to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the libreport-plugin-mailx-2.0.9 package of the CentOS operating system can lead to violations of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities can occur locally...

Vulnerabilities of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system that allow malicious actors to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the libreport-plugin-mailx-2.0.9 package of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system can lead to violations of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited locally...

Debian DLA-113-1 : bsd-mailx security update

It was discovered that bsd-mailx, an implementation of the 'mail' command, had an undocumented feature which treats syntactically valid email addresses as shell commands to execute. Users who need this feature can re-enable it using the 'expandaddr' in an appropriate mailrc file. This update also...

Debian DLA-114-1 : heirloom-mailx security update

Two security vulnerabilities were discovered in Heirloom mailx, an implementation of the 'mail' command : CVE-2004-2771 mailx interprets interprets shell meta-characters in certain email addresses. CVE-2014-7844 An unexpected feature of mailx treats syntactically valid email addresses as shell...

condor code execution

Unfiltered shell characters on mailx invocation...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2455-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...