13588 : GNU Emacs movemail popmail() Format String
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Disclosure Date
2005-02-07

Description

A remote overflow exists in GNU Emacs. The movemail function fails to adequately check responses from POP3 Servers in popmail() resulting in a format string overflow. With a specially crafted response, an attacker with a malicious POP3 Server can gain remote access with privilege of the logged on user and the effective group ID of the mail group resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access, Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 21.4 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as the fix has been applied to the CVS tree rather than as a patch kit.

Products

GNU

emacs

21.3

References

Security Tracker: 1013100
Secunia Advisory ID: 14110 14148 14168 14191 14194 14196 14240 14245 14281 14305 14307 14318 14419
CVE ID: 2005-0100 (see also: NVD)
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-announce/200502/msg00001.html
Other Advisory URL: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-20.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-670
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-671
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-685
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:038
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_06_sr.html
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-76-1
Vendor URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2005:112 RHSA-2005:134

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Credit

Max Vozeler - maxlinux.de -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-06-03 | Disagree?

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