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Message-ID: <20081103144957.GD18126@ngolde.de>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:49:57 +0100
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE request - uw-imap
Hi,
* Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com> [2008-11-03 15:38]:
> 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.
Patch attached.
HTH
Nico
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