PT-2001-2060 · Procmail · Procmail

Published 2001-10-18 · Updated 2017-10-10 · CVE-2001-0905

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.2

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions procmail versions 3.20 and earlier

Description A race condition exists in the signal handling of procmail when running setuid, allowing local users to cause a denial of service or potentially gain root privileges by sending a signal while a signal handling routine is already running.

Recommendations For procmail versions 3.20 and earlier, update to a version later than 3.20 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2001-0905

Affected Products

Procmail

References · 8

• http://debian.org/security/2001/dsa-083 · Vendor Advisory
• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000433 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/3071 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-0905 · Security Note
• ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:60.procmail.asc · Vendor Advisory
• http://linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-085.php3 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-093.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6872 · Note