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Message-ID: <20081103151706.3c572eb2@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:17:06 +0100
From: Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com>
To: OSS Security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>, coley@...re.org
Subject: CVE request - uw-imap
Hi!
uw-imap upstream released new version 2007d on friday, announcing it as
security update fixing some issues in dmail and tmail utilities:
http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002267.html
http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002268.html
Further digging into this, the issue seem to be a buffer overflow
(strcpy) when handling command line arguments (overlong mailbox
specification when utility is called with user+folder argument). This
can have security implications in the setups where tmail is installed
setuid root (according to the resources I found, that's required in
certain configurations; dmail is not expected to run under different
user), or when one of the utilities is configured as deliver agent in
the MTA.
Some further info I managed to collect is in our BZ:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469667
--
Tomas Hoger / Red Hat Security Response Team
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