CVE-2004-2771

The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an email address.

Score

CVSS 2.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2014-12-24

Last modified

2024-08-08

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Bsd Mailx (Bsd Mailx Project)
• Mailx (Heirloom)
• Linux (Oracle)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)

References

• http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1999.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1999.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1066
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60940
• http://secunia.com/advisories/61585
• http://secunia.com/advisories/61693
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3105
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278748