GLSA 200506-02: Mailutils: SQL Injection

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Mailutils: SQL Injection
Date:	06/06/2005
Bugs:	#94824
ID:	200506-02

Synopsis

GNU Mailutils is vulnerable to SQL command injection attacks.

Background

GNU Mailutils is a collection of mail-related utilities.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-mail/mailutils	< 0.6-r1	>= 0.6-r1	All supported architectures

Description

When GNU Mailutils is built with the "mysql" or "postgres" USE flag, the sql_escape_string function of the authentication module fails to properly escape the "\" character, rendering it vulnerable to a SQL command injection.

Impact

A malicious remote user could exploit this vulnerability to inject SQL commands to the underlying database.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All GNU Mailutils users should upgrade to the latest available version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/mailutils-0.6-r1"

References

CAN-2005-1824

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-02.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.