certfr_avis - certa-2011-avi-044

CERTA-2011-AVI-044

Vulnerability from certfr_avis

Une vulnérabilité permet à un utilisateur distant de faire écrire le démon de messagerie des données de journalisations à des emplacements arbitraires.

Description

Le manque de gestion d'erreurs dans le système d'appels aux fonctions setuid et setgid permet à l'utilisateur « Debian-exim » de forcer le démon de messagerie à écrire ses données de journalisation dans des fichiers arbitraires.

Solution

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

Debian exim4 versions 4.69.9+lenny1 et inférieures.

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Description

References

Title

Publication Time

CVE-2011-0017 (GCVE-0-2011-0017)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2011-02-02 00:00

Modified

2024-08-06 21:36

Severity ?

CWE

Summary

The open_log function in log.c in Exim 4.72 and earlier does not check the return value from (1) setuid or (2) setgid system calls, which allows local users to append log data to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

References

URL

Tags

	http://secunia.com/advisories/43128	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	http://osvdb.org/70696	vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
	ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.74	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0364	vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46065	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://secunia.com/advisories/43243	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65028	vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
	http://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20110126.034702.4d69c278.en.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0224	vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
	http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2154	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00004.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0464	vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
	http://secunia.com/advisories/43101	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0245	vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
	http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1060-1	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

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