PT-2014-8310 · Heirloom+4 · Mailx+4

Florian Weimer · Published 2014-12-16 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-7844

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions mailx versions 8.1.2 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted email address.

Recommendations For versions 8.1.2 and earlier, update to a version later than 8.1.2 to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Special Elements Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-74

Related Identifiers

CESA-2014_1999

CVE-2014-7844

DLA-113-1

DLA-114-1

DSA-3104-1

DSA-3105-1

MGASA-2014-0538

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10561-1

RHSA-2014:1999

RHSA-2014_1999

SUSE-RU-2015:0876-1

USN-2455-1

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Mailx

References · 39

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2771 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10561-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7844 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2455-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0538 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2455-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7844 · Security Note
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1999.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-7844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-7844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3105 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7844 · Vendor Advisory
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1066 · Patch