Ubuntu: USN-4820-1 (CVE-2017-5899): S-nail vulnerability
7
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
03/27/2017
03/29/2023
03/22/2023
03/22/2023
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the setuid root helper binary in S-nail (later S-mailx) before 14.8.16 allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges via a .. (dot dot) in the randstr argument.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-heirloom-mailx
- ubuntu-upgrade-s-nail
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