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1.6 KiB
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="202006-12">
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<title>GNU Mailutils: Privilege escalation</title>
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<synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in GNU Mailutils allowing privilege
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escalation.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">mailutils</product>
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<announced>2020-06-13</announced>
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<revised count="1">2020-06-13</revised>
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<bug>700806</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="net-mail/mailutils" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">3.8</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">3.8</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>The GNU Mailutils are a collection of mail-related utilities, including
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an IMAP4 server (imap4d).
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>GNU Mailutils runs maidag by default with setuid root permissions.</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="high">
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<p>An attacker can use this to write to arbitrary files as root.</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All GNU Mailutils users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/mailutils-3.8"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18862">CVE-2019-18862</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-05-12T21:52:25Z">sam_c</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-06-13T01:51:38Z">sam_c</metadata>
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</glsa>
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