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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-011

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-011
Posted Jan 8, 2015
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-011 - A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email addresses. A syntactically valid email address could allow a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through shell meta-characters and the direct command execution functionality.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, shell, local
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2004-2771, CVE-2014-7844
SHA-256 | 45862ddf8d02a45eb593c9aa3796b231b6204a70b54fdae6d3551fefb467715c

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-011

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:011
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : nail
Date : January 8, 2015
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

Updated nail package fixes security vulnerabilities:

A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email
addresses. A syntactically valid email address could allow a local
attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through
shell meta-characters and the direct command execution functionality
(CVE-2004-2771, CVE-2014-7844).
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2771
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7844
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0538.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
69a100820f7d4bce057977fa34839a43 mbs1/x86_64/nail-12.4-8.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
11c14f4f124d62fd79a6e426e53d25eb mbs1/SRPMS/nail-12.4-8.1.mbs1.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/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

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