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TITLE:
SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Shell Command Injection

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38840

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38840/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in the SpamAssassin Milter
Plugin, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to input not being properly sanitised
in the "mlfi_envrcpt" function in spamass-milter.cpp before using it
in a call to "popen()", which can be exploited to inject and execute
arbitrary shell commands.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 0.3.1. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Use another product.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Kingcope

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-03/0139.html

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