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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2006.047

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2006.047
Posted Feb 26, 2006
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory - Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way that metamail handles certain mail messages. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted message that, when parsed via metamail, could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running metamail.

tags | advisory, overflow, arbitrary
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2006-0709
SHA-256 | 66586910de893ad381f105ced19dbb725b10b417fed83d7b0ced7c14a5c1f7a3

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2006.047

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2006:047
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : metamail
Date : February 22, 2006
Affected: 10.1, 10.2, 2006.0, Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way
that metamail handles certain mail messages. An attacker could create
a carefully-crafted message that, when parsed via metamail, could
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
metamail.

The updated packages have been patched to address this issue.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0709
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Linux 10.1:
ba0268bd4a41df13182c7ad54326dba5 10.1/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
37738308d3dff71b6eb473c207acc588 10.1/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 10.1/X86_64:
31b1df74ae413c00e037675fb772bc86 x86_64/10.1/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
37738308d3dff71b6eb473c207acc588 x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 10.2:
6dae955385087b6bffdebca801ac2de9 10.2/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
d4f56b18f644e54f5aaadf59247b6ba9 10.2/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 10.2/X86_64:
b8904fd8e2d4c4b16329eb3be040ae82 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
d4f56b18f644e54f5aaadf59247b6ba9 x86_64/10.2/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006.0:
983ad9efe0f7270920f719209e29ef8d 2006.0/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm
f2d440c17063c3440342afd83a939dfe 2006.0/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.2.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64:
3b2eb2370dd3a37a0f6e7b8e6e97d65f x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
f2d440c17063c3440342afd83a939dfe x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.2.20060mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0:
193e9f3fe5013735ae70e1f0d123375c corporate/3.0/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm
33711284aa358a2d82db961a27231e6e corporate/3.0/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0/X86_64:
6b44f1e909779950783bbab4988e391a x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
33711284aa358a2d82db961a27231e6e x86_64/corporate/3.0/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.C30mdk.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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