Overview
Request 747751 accepted
- Update to mailutils 3.8
* The maidag utility is withdrawn (CVE-2019-18862, bsc#1156495)
The main purpose of this utility was to work as local mail delivery
agent (MDA), a program responsible for final delivery of email messages
to the recipient's mailbox. As such it required suid privileges.
In parallel with its main purpose, it also was able to work in two
other modes: the 'url' mode, designed to deliver mails to arbitrary
mailbox URLs, and 'lmtp' mode, in which it acted as local mail
transport daemon. Neither of these needed suid privileges.
The unfortunate design decision to combine the three modes in a single
versatile tool resulted in local privilege escalation threat in 'url'
mode.
To fix this, maidag has been replaced by three different utilities,
each one with a precisely defined purpose and carefully designed
privileges: mda, lmtpd, and putmail.
* mda
* lmtpd
* putmail
* Use of TLS in pop3d run from inetd
* comsatd --test
* mail
** fix the semantics of 'hold' and 'keepsave' variables
** New message type specification ":s"
- Created by WernerFink
- In state accepted
Request History
WernerFink created request
- Update to mailutils 3.8
* The maidag utility is withdrawn (CVE-2019-18862, bsc#1156495)
The main purpose of this utility was to work as local mail delivery
agent (MDA), a program responsible for final delivery of email messages
to the recipient's mailbox. As such it required suid privileges.
In parallel with its main purpose, it also was able to work in two
other modes: the 'url' mode, designed to deliver mails to arbitrary
mailbox URLs, and 'lmtp' mode, in which it acted as local mail
transport daemon. Neither of these needed suid privileges.
The unfortunate design decision to combine the three modes in a single
versatile tool resulted in local privilege escalation threat in 'url'
mode.
To fix this, maidag has been replaced by three different utilities,
each one with a precisely defined purpose and carefully designed
privileges: mda, lmtpd, and putmail.
* mda
* lmtpd
* putmail
* Use of TLS in pop3d run from inetd
* comsatd --test
* mail
** fix the semantics of 'hold' and 'keepsave' variables
** New message type specification ":s"
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