Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.1.1.2005.841
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-841-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mailutils' package(s) announced via the DSA-841-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mailutils' package(s) announced via the DSA-841-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: A format string vulnerability has been discovered in GNU mailutils which contains utilities for handling mail that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the IMAP server. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.1-4sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.90-3. We recommend that you upgrade your mailutils package. Affected Software/OS: 'mailutils' package(s) on Debian 3.1. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.5 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2878 BugTraq ID: 14794 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14794 Bugtraq: 20050926 FreeBSD GNU Mailutils 0.6 imap4d exploit (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112785181316043&w=2 Debian Security Information: DSA-841 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-841 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-10.xml http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=303&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=true http://www.rosiello.org/archivio/imap4d_FreeBSD_exploit.c http://secunia.com/advisories/16783 http://secunia.com/advisories/17020
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