ALAS-2015-467 --- mailxID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1200154 | Date: (C)2015-12-28 (M)2023-07-28 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email addresses. A syntactically valid email address could allow a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through shell meta-characters and the direct command execution functionality. Note: Applications using mailx to send email to addresses obtained from untrusted sources will still remain vulnerable to other attacks if they accept email addresses which start with "-" . To counteract this issue, this update also introduces the "--" option, which will treat the remaining command line arguments as email addresses.
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Amazon Linux AMI |