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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-18862: GNU Mailutils: Privilege escalation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 11, 2019
Added
Jun 15, 2020
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-mail-mailutils
Title
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