PT-2004-1922 · Getmail · Getmail

David Watson · Published 2004-09-24 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2004-0881

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: getmail versions prior to 4.2.0 getmail versions prior to 3.2.5

Description: The issue allows local users to write files in arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on subdirectories in the maildir when getmail is run as root.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 4.2.0, update to version 4.2.0 or later. For versions prior to 3.2.5, update to version 3.2.5 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-0881

DSA-553-1

Affected Products

Getmail

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0881 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2004/dsa-553 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-32.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/CHANGELOG · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109571883130372&w=2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17439 · Note