PT-1999-1655 · Elm · Elm

Published 1999-12-31 · Updated 2016-10-18 · CVE-1999-1334

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Elm version 2.4

Description: The issue concerns multiple buffer overflows in the filter command of Elm 2.4. Attackers can exploit this by executing arbitrary commands via long headers, specifically the (1) From: headers, (2) Reply-To: headers, or (3) via a long -f (filterfile) command line argument.

Recommendations: For Elm version 2.4, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent exploitation.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-1999-1334

Affected Products

Elm

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1334 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=88609666024181&w=2 · Note
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/rh50-errata-general.html#elm · Note