cve-2004-2771
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-12-24 18:00
Modified
2024-08-08 01:36
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1999.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1999.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1066
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/60940
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/61585
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/61693
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3105
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278748Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1999.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1999.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1066
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/60940
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/61585
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/61693
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3105
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278748Exploit
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