oss-security - CVE Request -- SpamAssassin Mail Filter -- arbitrary shell command injection (priv esc)

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Message-ID: <4B977C67.2080404@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:03:03 +0100
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
CC: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: CVE Request -- SpamAssassin Mail Filter -- arbitrary shell command
 injection (priv esc)

Hi Steve, vendors,

   Security researcher called "Kingcope" pointed out:
   [1] http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2010-March/073489.html

   a deficiency in the way Mail Filter plugin for the SpamAssassin
   spam filter sanitized certain mail header field, when spamass-milter
   was run with the expand flag (-x option).

   Affected versions:
     Flaw reported against v0.3.1. Others may be also affected.

   References:
     [2] http://secunia.com/advisories/38840/
     [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573228

   Could you allocate CVE id for this?

Thanks && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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